Mr. President, I wish to honor and thank Janet Burrell for her 37 years of talented and dedicated public service upon her retirement from the Senate. Her career in the Senate spans an impressive array of issues and responsibilities--all of…

I think the Congress is an enabler.

The role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The opportunities are enormous. The need to get information from one place to another is only going to grow.

I find them to be more often than not constructive and trying to be helpful to enable the Postal Service to survive and thrive.

TSA faces serious challenges that demand strong, permanent, Senate-confirmed leadership.

If you have great leadership, you have a fighting chance to be successful. If you do not, you are probably doomed.

One of the things is that, as hard as they work, they never get thanked.

I think risk-based security is a good procedure.

I think he is an excellent choice, and we will have a hearing, and we are doing our vetting for him right now.

The most important element of any organization I have ever been a part of or seen is leadership.

What you cannot measure you cannot manage.

He was my heart, my soul, my everything.

Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I rise in support of this resolution that celebrates the life of Beau Biden, the son of our Vice President, my State's former attorney general, and my good friend. This past weekend, Beau Biden…

There are too many vacancies for too long a period of time for Inspectors General, do something about it.

we need to redouble our efforts.

one death is too many, especially if it is a death caused by a mistake or inappropriate attention or care.