I would urge all of us who have this enormous responsibility to reauthorize this act, all of us on this committee to work in a culture rooted in passion, accountability, leadership, and teamwork.

Economic development has got to be the answer.

the cause of these brownouts and the extra charges to the State of California was not caused by regulation, but was caused by companies like Enron ripping Granny off?

I would like to work with you on this and explicit protections for folks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender for kids who are--it is a very real thing that there is this bullying in school.

the Federal Government does something, it's bad, and it's good if private innovation does it.

I'm proud that over 90 percent of insured Minnesotans get their coverage from a nonprofit health insurer.

I think that, along with these rate reviews that Senator Feinstein is proposing, minimum loss ratio is an important element in holding health insurance companies accountable.

your example is almost a perfect example of why we need regulation, not why we were suffering from too much regulation.

From 2000 to 2007, American families saw their premiums almost double. During that time, we saw more than 6 million Americans become uninsured.

Congress' job of triage in this case, as Senator Franken noted, is to eliminate the glaring problems first.

McNamara's fallacy is that things that can be easily measured will be measured and will be considered important.

The legislation that you have introduced and Senator Hatch has introduced on school leadership I think is an exemplar of what can be done in school leadership.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with my colleagues to honor the memory of the 29 miners who lost their lives in the Upper Big Branch Mine, and to express our gratitude to the rescue teams who bravely pursued…

I kind of came from telecom. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota is recognized.

Madam President, I am going to tie together judicial nominees and administrative nominees. You heard from my colleague, Senator Klobuchar from Minnesota. She talked about how President Bush had, during his first two years in office, about…

Madam President, I thank the Senator from Virginia. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I have seen what is going on here. We get these nominations through our committee, and then they vanish into thin air. You can look at the numbers…

Mr. Speaker, last week I had the opportunity to travel around my southern Minnesota district talking to local business owners on the best ways to grow and revitalize our economy. Businesses, working families, including the Mayo Clinic…

I want to make sure that the Department of Justice--make sure that conditions, merger conditions would actually have enough teeth and have a long enough life that they would really impose real conditions to prevent the very thing I am…