Most States, including my own State of Pennsylvania, are facing significant budget problems this fiscal year. The fiscal situation in some States eerily resembles Greece and Ireland. Unfortunately, the Federal Government is adding fuel to…

Last week the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on the plight of Christian minorities in Iraq and Egypt. In the wake of the devastating attacks targeting Christians in both countries, it is clear that religious minorities…

Shakespeare penned the words that gave title to a true story of the 101st Airborne during World War II. In ``King Henry V,'' he wrote: ``We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; ``For he today that sheds his blood with me ``Shall be my…

``On a blistering evening in Phoenix recently, a group of prominent civic leaders met to talk about America. It didn't take long for the conversation to get around to the fall of the Ottoman Empire. ``That's what happens when smart…

As a health care professional for almost 30 years, I actually sat down and read all 2,000 pages of the health care bill. And as I read through the measure, I became increasingly alarmed at the level of control over an individual's health…

Thank you, Dr. Gingrey. I appreciate that. Let me talk about a couple of important aspects of this bill and understand that if you have a car and it has a flat tire, you don't get rid of the car; you change the tire. But if you have a car…

Republicans agree, and we want families to keep their kids on their plans if they wish. And last Congress that's why we offered proposals that would have allowed dependent children to stay on their parents' plans. But once again, the other…

I might just respond: ObamaCare spends over $1 trillion but leaves 23 million people uninsured. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been arguing that we can't afford to repeal ObamaCare. I would argue just the…

Another couple of brief points I would like to bring up, because out of a sense of compassion, we want to continue to practice health care and we want patients to be able to afford it. But let me point out a couple of ways this bill is…

We have heard a lot of rhetoric from my colleagues across the aisle opposing this legislation because of a select number of insurance market provisions included in the massive, overreaching health care law. As a two-time cancer survivor…

Today our thoughts and prayers are with all of those who were taken from us last week in this horrific tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. Our Nation stands with Congresswoman Giffords in her recovery, her family, her staff, and all of those who…

I join with my colleagues today to honor the 6 who died and the 14 who were wounded, including our own colleague Gabrielle Giffords, in the horror which unfolded last Saturday morning in Tucson, Arizona. I was at home Saturday checking my…

``. . . transmit within 4 days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon…

``No Senator or Representative shall during the time for which he was elected be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States which shall have been created or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased…

Section 4: ``Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker…

Well, here we go again. Gasoline: $3, $4, and soon $5 a gallon. Oil at $100 a barrel. Yet America's offshore resources total more than 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough oil to replace imports from…

Mr. President, I thank Senator Brown, as well as Senators McCain and Kyl, for entering into this agreement. It extends this for a short period of time. It is important as it relates to manufacturing jobs in a State such as ours, where we…

Mr. President, when I came to the Senate in 2007 as a Senator-elect, one of the first things I did was to go see Senator Specter. He asked me at the time to go to lunch, and from the moment that I arrived in the Senate, he made it very…