it really is not a deficit problem to move it forward and get it done now while we need the jobs.

For over a quarter of water systems have violated the arsenic or radioactive standards, there is no record that they were ever contacted by a regulator.

So you would concur that our effort today to pass health care reform is critical to our economic future.

There are very severe, long-lasting costs associated with unemployment rates at the level we are seeing.

I think an essential element would be to try to reform health care in a way that controls costs going out.

Was the trajectory of Federal spending and Federal Reserve policy more appropriate at the end of 2000 or the end of 1999 than it is today?

I think from my view, the faster we get this accomplished, then we can move on to some of the other issues we have talked about today.

I think jobs are the issue right now, and I think it is not just today's incomes, today's production.

I look forward with interest to the letter from the distinguished Senator from Wyoming.

it is frequently the tactic of the polluting industries and of those who serve their ends to engage in the spread of doubt about the science

Even with the most dedicated and talented government in Kabul, Afghani Government, the ability to reach out into the provinces is limited.

that was agreed to by the Bush administration as a hard deadline without conditions.

My point is the difference semantically between 'plausible' and 'reasonable' is that 'reasonable' connects more directly to an objective standard; whereas, 'plausibility,' by its very definition, imports a subjective point of view of the…

Some of the criticism of even talking about a date... is that it would embolden the enemy.

we are sick to death of leaks out of the Executive Branch of government.

leaking is politics in Washington. It's the way people expand their turf and make their moves.

I am extremely proud of our Federal law enforcement officers, of our career prosecutors.

I think this legislation is timely, appropriate, and extremely important.