Well, especially when we're competing in a global economy.

Mr. President, I am pleased to come to the floor today with a few of my women colleagues to discuss the President's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. I am a member of the Judiciary…

Mr. President, I thank my two colleagues, Senators Shaheen and Stabenow, for joining me in making open arguments in favor of Solicitor General Kagan to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. If Members listened to Senator…

I want to reward the businessmen who are doing this right, and I am like Senator Isakson.

I have to tell you when I go back to Minnesota, one of the biggest complaints I hear from my friends in the construction industry... is that there are dishonest players who keep finding loopholes.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Scott Urban, a teacher from Mankato West High School in Mankato, Minnesota. Scott was this year's recipient of the Minnesota WEM Foundation's Outstanding Educator Award. This award recognizes exemplary…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on Members of Congress and the Wall Street reform conference committee to stand up for hardworking Americans and send us a strong bill that protects the interests of those on Main Street who have been…

Well, the doughnut hole will be.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this very, very important hearing.

I think that there's a different type of strategy for each of those age groups.

Thank you both very much. Very helpful.

But we need to make sure that Social Security is sound, and I have some theories on how we could do that.

I think that people--do people by and large underestimate how long they're going to live?

So what are the barriers? I imagine it's complexity, that people are looking at these things and they're complex.

Thank goodness we have those, right?

But very few people do get annuities, isn't that right?

That's what we're talking about.

Mr. President, I rise to tell a very important story. Some of my colleagues have heard me talk previously about a woman named Tecora, a homeowner from south Minneapolis who is at risk of losing her home. Back in 2005, Tecora was looking…