In Tennessee it is particularly important to remind our teenagers of the financial impact that education can have on you...
We still have too many who are dropping out--some because of apathy, some because they simply need to help pay the bills...
I would encourage the Committee to look at the role that the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education program play...
You know how you can earn a million dollars in the next 4 years? Graduate from college. That is all you have to do.
We do not have options about whether we keep our children healthy, about whether or not the air we breathe is clean.
I applaud the President for understanding that reality, for beginning the process of putting the necessary funds into th...
No one, including the President, has the right to require ideological purity from a member of the Supreme Court.
If confirmed, you will join the Supreme Court with more Federal judicial experience than any Justice in the past 100 yea...
These issues invite all Americans to struggle with the dilemmas of democracy and the great questions of our Constitution...
Judge Sotomayor's qualifications are outstanding.
One attack that I find particularly shocking is the suggestion that she will be biased against some litigants because of...
I am wary of judicial activism and I believe in judicial restraint.
The President has done his part. He has made a historic nomination. Now the Senate has to do its part on behalf of the S...
Each generation of Americans has sought that arc toward justice.
Ultimately and completely a judge has to follow the law, no matter what their upbringing has been.
Judge Sotomayor will be in this same mold and will serve as a Justice in the manner of Sandra Day O'Connor.
I hope all Americans are encouraged by Judge Sotomayor's achievements and by her nomination to the Nation's highest cour...
Our Constitution is interesting in this regard. We have over 300 million Americans, but only 101 people get a chance to ...
