They are cutting deeply into Medicare and Medicaid, and they are cutting the very education and training programs that our working families need.

The way we spend our money... says an awful lot about who we are.

Today we honor the memory of a great American, Johnson Chesnut Whittaker.

We cannot undo history.

The people of Israel have demonstrated enormous resolve and determination in pursuing the path of peace.

Republicans want to balance the budget through cuts that hurt working families while providing a huge tax cut that goes largely to people who don't need it.

We mustn't throw over, in a moment of partisan zeal, the common sense and bipartisan conclusions of our fathers and mothers.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.

I believe those two goals are inseparable.

I want to invest in our people, not turn back the clock on them.

I want this country to be a high-opportunity, smart-work country with good jobs and safe streets.

These harsh, partisan, and unwise cuts undermine that consensus as well as the future income and living standards of working families and their children.

We have to restore the American dream of opportunity and the American value of responsibility.

I offer my deepest condolences to the Government and people of Israel at this tragic moment.

May God bless his memory, and may all of us honor his service to the United States of America.

I proposed a reasonable plan to balance the budget while investing more in education and training.

If Congress sends me this bill in its present form, I will have to veto it.

COPS is a highly successful program that promotes community policing, a proven, effective means of reducing crime at the neighborhood level.