Madam President, as I was coming to work today, I drove past St. Peter's grade school which is on the House side of the Hill, and there was a group of students--little kids--who were being escorted by their teacher down the sidewalk. As…

You must know that whatever measure of comfort we can provide, we will provide it. Whatever portion of sadness that we can share with you to ease this heavy load, we will gladly bear it. Newtown, you are not alone.

I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families.

We will have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this regardless of the politics.

This evening Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do which is hug our children a little tighter and tell them we love them and we will remind each other how deeply we love one another. But, there are families in…

I offered governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate the heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families.

This evening, Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter, and we will tell them that we love them, and we will remind each other how deeply we love one another. But there…

In the hard days to come, the community needs us to be at our best as Americans, and I will do everything in my power as president to help.

And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

We have endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years.

As a country we have been through this too many times, whether it's an elementary school in Newtown or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin or a movie theater in Aurora or a street corner in Chicago.

I would call the Senator's attention to our vote on August 2 when he and I both voted for the Budget Control Act. The vote was 74 to 26, with a substantial number of Senators from both sides of the aisle, that brought us to this moment in…

Mr. President, every week I hear from students across my State and around the Nation who are struggling with student loans. Congress has acted on important legislation to help students with these loans by keeping the interest rate of…

Mr. President, if the rough and tumble of Chicago politics is not where you would expect to find a slightly built Catholic nun, you have never met Sister Sheila Lyne. Sister Sheila has been an icon in Chicago health care for almost half a…

Mr. President, I would like to respond very briefly to my colleagues from Texas. The fiscal crisis was not manufactured, it was enacted--enacted into law, a law passed with the support of both political parties in the hopes that we would…

Mr. President, how much time is remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There are 7 minutes, 20 seconds remaining.

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) are necessarily absent.

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) are necessarily absent.