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The United States stood with the people of Albania for the first 100 years of their country's independence and will stand with you for the next hundred years and the hundred years that follow.

I would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to the people of Albania on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of your country's independence.

I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), and the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu) are necessarily absent.

Mr. President, I have listened closely in this debate because it literally affects my career, my life, and the lives of all the Members of the Senate. It is worth a minute or two to understand what we are talking about in the context of…

It is my great pleasure to welcome President-elect Pena Nieto to the Oval Office and to the White House.

If we get a bipartisanship commitment from both Speaker Boehner and from the Senate side, I know we can come to an agreement with the president.

We need to protect those middle income families.

So the only way you can reach that, incidentally, is to allow the rates to go up.

Social Security doesn't add one penny to the deficit.

We can find this. I do think there's a reasonable way for us to reduce the spending there without compromising the integrity of the program.

Well, I can tell you the president has set a goal, $1.6 trillion in revenue or taxes over the next ten years.

I don't think there's any other way to approach it.

I know we can do it. I absolutely know it. What we need to have is a commitment from Speaker Boehner that whatever we come up with will be considered on a bipartisan basis in the House.

I do believe and I said it, any long-term deficit reduction will require entitlement reform for one simple reason.

I know we can do it. I absolutely know it.

Let the rates go up to 39. Let us also take a look at the deductions. Let's make sure that revenue is an integral part of deficit reduction. And yes, from my side of the table, bring entitlement reform into the conversation.

Let the rates go up to 39. Let us also take a look at the deductions. Let's make sure that revenue is an integral part of deficit reduction. Yes, from my side of the table, bring entitlement reform into the conversation.