Leaders are purveyors of hope.

We were told a couple years ago that going from 6 to 5-day-a-week service for the Postal Service would save $3 billion a year for every year going forward.

For years, I have sat here with our labor friends from the postal unions, especially to the letter carriers, and urged them to work with the Postal Service to find a way to continue to deliver mail on Saturday.

I just want to make sure that the Postal Service is profitable and viable.

I think leaders are humble, not haughty.

This can turn out a whole lot better than some were willing to believe just a few years ago.

When we passed our legislation 2 years ago, 62 Senators voted for it.

unless we do our job that they may be compelled, no help from the Congress and the President, to close another 80 or so

I think working with Congress, both houses.

I feel very good about that and have been back a couple times since.

Madam President, the committee which I am privileged to chair, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and on which Senator Portman serves is responsible for working with the administration and others to help make sure…

Mr. Speaker, if you drive down Interstate 95 in my home State of Delaware right now, you will see license plates from up and down the Northeast corridor that are crawling at a snail's pace. As a result of structural damage, a bridge that…

I am pleased this requests additional badly needed resources for immigration judges, for an expansion of the legal orientation program, for counsel for minors.

Madam President, as you do now, I recently had the honor of presiding over this Chamber and had the opportunity in the hour I just finished presiding to listen to our colleagues as they have come to this floor, as you just have, Madam…

I think the evidence is clear that the children who we are seeing, and who are being interdicted at our southern border at record numbers are fleeing dramatically increased levels of violence in three Central American countries--Guatemala…

These people are desperate.

we have a longstanding historical role in the region.

How do we get to the people and change that mindset?