I served on Simpson-Bowles. In many ways I think your work product is actually somewhat superior to ours.

Any prudent person, I think, would say, we are going to have to make some changes.

We do not need to throw the baby out with the bath water, we do not need to shred Medicare in order to save it.

These people have been born. They are alive today. They are going to be eligible for Social Security and Medicare.

I thank my esteemed colleague, who is not only a Senator but a former Governor as well. Agriculture Reform Mr. President, I rise to speak on the farm bill. I think we have a real opportunity to pass a farm bill that will not only reduce…

I come to the floor to discuss the amendment that is pending to kill the Sugar Program in the United States. My colleagues should know that the domestic sugar industry employs 140,000 people in this country. If there were ever a jobs…

One thing I learned about Senator Nickles is his word is absolutely gold.

I personally believe we are going to have to reduce tax expenditures, broaden the base.

I will tell you, it is extremely impressive. It is being carefully done.

We need to lower the corporate rate to be more competitive.

When you are borrowing $0.40 of every $1, that cannot continue much longer.

It is incredibly important to the economics of the country that we make further progress.

We have provisions right now that encourage us to invest, and we need to invest heavily in the Bakken.

Since 2005, we have gone down from 60-percent dependent to 45-percent dependent last year.

I rise to speak in support of the farm bill which is now before the Senate. As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I worked, together with my fellow committee members, on a bipartisan basis to put forward what we believe is a…

I want to say that the Senator has provided brilliant leadership on this legislation. I am in my 26th year here. I have never seen a chairwoman so personally and directly engaged to make legislation happen in an extraordinarily difficult…

Farm subsidies, in my view, they are like a reverse Robin Hood program. They take from average taxpayers and give to high-income farm households.

I think we already have sort of an equality between voters like that.