It is in this spirit that our family extends our prayers and best wishes during this season and for the new year to come.

The Kwanzaa message tells us that we should recall the lessons of the past even as we seize the promise of tomorrow.

The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian civilians, which has apparently resulted in detentions, injuries and even death.

We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt to dismantle and to defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia.

We immediately enhanced screening procedures for all flights, domestic and international. We added federal air marshals to flights entering and leaving the United States.

The American people should remain vigilant, but also be confident.

We immediately enhanced screening and security procedures for all flights, domestic and international. We added federal air marshals to flights entering and leaving the United States.

The American people should remain vigilant but also be confident.

His life-long dedication to the fight for civil rights and his career as an entrepreneur and public servant made the rise of countless young African Americans possible.

Percy Sutton was a true hero to African Americans in New York City and around the country.

I thank them for their continued willingness to serve and know that they will dispense justice with unwavering integrity and impartiality.

In a historic vote that took place this morning, Members of the Senate joined their colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass a landmark health insurance reform package.

Stories like his motivate me every day to keep working on health insurance reform.

Gloria M. Navarro, of Nevada, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, vice Brian Edward Sandoval, resigned.

This health care reform has the major elements that the President wanted to make sure that it has.

If passed, this will be the most important piece of social legislation since the Social Security Act in the 1930s and the most important reform of our health care system since Medicare passed in the 1960s.

Assured Mr. Turner that I will continue to work to pass health legislation to ban rescission and other abusive practices.

This bill will strengthen Medicare and extend the life of the program.