The President last night said that, if in fact his agenda is hindered by Congress or high water, he is going to have the ability, or will take on the issue with more executive orders.

When I go around in Kansas and talk to folks and talk to them about a business that supports 1.2 million American jobs and over $150 billion of wealth creation across the U.S. economy and ask, ``What do you think a President would do if…

Hopefully through tax reform we can lower the corporate tax rate, and this will not be a problem.

local control is best control, and not top down.

Please, the Race to the Top right now and trying to get past a conditional waiver is a race to regulations.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you and Senator Alexander for working so hard to get an authorization bill out, and I hope we can get that done.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding me this time. Today, there are still more than 12 million Americans unemployed. Parents are taking home lower wages to support their children, and families are paying more for everything from…

The AARP, the American Medical Association, the Episcopal Church, the Catholic Conference, the Conference of Mayors, Bob Barker, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Bennett, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Sara Lee Corporation, and hundreds of other…

Most of the things that the federal government's resources have gone to in this intervening period... continue to provide a very, very negligible set of outputs important to the American economy.

I am actually--I am working on some legislation to give FERC a little more authority in trying to streamline this process.

A global Internet free from government control is in the best interests of all Americans.

I was surprised Mr. Griffith didn't talk about coal exports.

We ought to be exporting from America.

I think there is also a circular effect, that is, if you know that you can efficiently build a pipeline, folks will go look for in other places as well.

all of us in our lives from time to time hear of the passing, the death of someone we know. Sometimes it is family, often friends, or perhaps someone we are only vaguely acquainted with. This past week, we learned of the death of a Kansas…

in my home State of Kansas, there are hundreds of small communities that line the highways and county roads that stretch across the prairie part of the country. In many of these towns, the populations are shrinking, but they are still…

I have only been a Member of the Senate for 2 years, but in that short period of time at least seven other countries have taken actions that we have not taken to better support and attract entrepreneurs to their countries' economies. The…

let me take a moment to welcome you to the Senate. I look forward to working with you and welcome you, coming from the House of Representatives to the Senate. Over the Christmas holidays most of our Nation was focused on what Congress…