I empathize with that position and understand why it happens.
I so appreciate Chairman Harkin's comments about the importance of defined pension benefits.
In searching for that needle, like a needle in a haystack, we need to take some hay off the stack and ensure that the screeners be logical i...
The safety and security of anyone traveling in the United States is one of my top priorities.
If it is needed, let us appropriate the money for it.
What I would like to know is: What information did they have? Who made the decision?
I do not believe that we would have had what we are getting today without this visa waiver legislation.
I think is enhancing the security of the United States of America and also something that is extremely important to this country's public di...
We are out of control and we are reaching a precipice, that if we do not take definitive action soon, we could pass a tipping point.
We can be the first republic to stand the test of time. But we have to change course because we will not succeed unless we do.
I think that this cannot be the last generation of Americans... that they are not going to have an opportunity for the same standard of livi...
After national security, I think the most important issue Congress and our Nation faces today is this issue of our debt and budgets that are...
The trust funds are an accounting device. They do not mean the same thing as Webster's Dictionary.
We are negative cash flow in the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.
Nobody is going to bail out America. We have to solve our own problem, and we need to get started soon.
We have met the enemy and it is us.
At some point, that has to stop, and it will.
You need dramatic and fundamental reforms. You need to engage in movement politics.