I choose to disagree with that characterization. It was a namby-pamby watered-down statement that was oblique, at best.

I certainly am not going to look forward to a fight in the Budget Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Appropriations Committee on a decision that the Navy and Secretary Gates have made that is essential to the national…

Is it true that the lessons of Pearl Harbor... is still a lesson that is taught in the United States Navy?

We have been through this process laboriously now for the 10 years that I have been Senator.

the whole thing, we are going to forgive about $1.6 trillion that we are not going to pay.

the fact that we only got 53 votes for setting up a commission in the statutes that you and Senator Gregg proposed I think is a shame.

I want to ask you a friendly question and I want to ask you an unfriendly question.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I introduced the Job Creation Act of 2010. The number one priority in America should be jobs and helping small businesses. My five-point plan is to provide tax relief for small businesses. Instead of writing off…

I rise today to recognize two outstanding Americans, my good friends, Ronald and Glenda Krongold, constituents of my congressional district. For decades, the Krongolds have dedicated themselves to the safety and security of our democratic…

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of S. 2949. Two weeks ago today, Haiti was devastated by its largest earthquake in over two centuries. The United States has been unparalleled in its efforts to assist Haiti in the wake of this…

Later on, Mr. Speaker, we will be discussing an important resolution which designates the week of February 1 as National School Counseling Week on behalf of each and every child that these counselors have helped. As a mother, as a…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask how we can break the national 10 percent unemployment barrier which has now hit my home State of Florida hard with a totally unacceptable 11.8 percent unemployment rate. The congressional leadership has…

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi extermination camps. Over 1 million people were systematically murdered at Auschwitz in gas chambers or shot or tortured or starved to death or…

I would like to thank the gentleman from Virginia for his enormous leadership. As I agree with all of my colleagues, everybody has a different reason why they run for Congress. I have been in business for 30 years. Your first term, my…

Mr. President, there is a reason for this, and it is our Nation's budget is on a path toward crisis. We have to do something extraordinary, just as we did back in 1983. Over the last decade, we have spent billions to wage two wars, but we…

Mr. President, I am speaking today in favor of the Conrad-Gregg amendment, of which I am a cosponsor also. While the Senator from California is here, I want to go back 27 years ago to one of the times in which government came together and…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business up to 15 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Haitian Children

Mr. President, I do not think there was any person who lives on planet Earth, who saw the clip on CNN this morning of dying children in Haiti, who did not have emotion overwhelm them, as my wife Grace and I, having been to Haiti many…