The President's charge right there before all the American people that the Court had opened the door to special interests, bankrolling elections, I think was very misleading.

The President claimed that the decision 'reversed a century of law' and 'opened the floodgates' for special interests and foreign powers to 'bankroll American elections.'

Citizens United found that independent expenditures, advertisements, pamphlets, books, documentaries produced independently from a party or candidate's campaign cannot be suppressed under the First Amendment.

Mr. President, I voted against waving a budget point of order to the Murray/Kerry amendment on the grounds that it is not paid for and contained terrible welfare and Medicare policies. The Congress cannot keep spending money it does not…

We may hold the record open for a while here to have some written questions from Senators who were not able to be here because of schedule conflicts.

I urge the Senate to support similar education jobs relief to save teachers and protect the futures of students.

The Senate needs to act quickly on an education jobs package.

My colleagues back home asked me to deliver a strong message--please act now to help avert the looming layoffs.

Leaving States to cut education more deeply--and we already are cut to the bone--without additional Federal aid is short-sighted.

We wanted to keep people employed.

the fact that the President's budget was able to come up with a $1 billion increase for NIH is something that--we should all, sort of, credit the administration with their vision for science.

I think, has really been the great leader on this one.

we're going to have some real problems in education, meeting our needs in higher education.

I don't have any problem with the $500 million, but I----

There's an estimate out there that, from 2010 to 2050, the Medicare and Medicaid costs of Alzheimer's will total--ready for this one?--about $20 trillion.

I am impatient, just as you are--frustrated, as you are--about this terrible disease of pancreatic cancer.

I would not want to have a day go by where we were passing up on the opportunity of new ideas to do something about this.

it seems to me that we ought to be funding NIH a lot more aggressively than we are.