This is clearly an area where I think Democrats and Republicans can work together.
Medicare in 2013 is very different than Medicare when it began in 1965.
A very good one.
I think the kind of thing we saw on the front page of the New York Times is a little bit different than a deduction to l...
tax-exempt financing ought to be about general obligation bonds. It ought to be about the needs of the States to finance...
Let us just make sure we do not put at risk the vulnerable and the low-income.
I was telling Senator Murkowski I came to the U.S. Senate in 1996, the first new senator from Oregon in 30 years.
For the first time in decades, our Nation will be able to rely on its own U.S. energy resources.
This scourge has been debated for it seems like longer than--a longer running debate than the Trojan War.
But it looks like you 3 souls have been willing to stay here as we got up and came back.
I applaud the President's attention to manufacturing in this budget. I applaud his investment in education, early educat...
the argument is often made that Social Security, the premiums go into the trust fund, the trust fund lends money out to ...
So we are looking at another set of decisions, and right now we are on a course to have a significant drop in defense an...
I think that is very important because at the heart of this is an issue of fairness.
Do not get rid of them. Do not divest them.
About roughly 20 years before the trust fund itself is depleted.
About as good a value as we can get in this country.
But it seems to me we are now moving in the direction of adding another component, and that is value.