I have been working with Senator Warner, Mark Warner, on this.

I don't want the 'mission accomplished' banner. We have so much more to do.

I was on a bill a year ago with Senator Conrad to try to put a process, a bipartisan process together with suggestions on Social Security and other ways to bring down our deficit.

It is very difficult for me to explain to the people in northern Minnesota... why their unemployment benefits would be cut off.

We are grateful to the Members of Congress who signed onto a letter circulated by Congressmen Tim Walz and Steve King.

I think we can all agree that energy is one of the primary ingredients of infrastructure.

The fact of the matter is you are saying that if we go more to a French system or a Swiss system, that we will have increased bankruptcies, but the fact is they do not have bankruptcies and we do for medical care.

This is simply immoral and unacceptable.

It is also unbelievable to me that, in this day and age, we allow insurance companies to charge women more for health insurance simply because of the fact that they may become pregnant.

I believe that women's health is fundamental to our country's health because women are the small business owners and entrepreneurs, they are the educators, doctors, and CEOs.

It is of utmost importance that national health reform legislation makes a real difference in the lives of American women, across their lifespan.

health insurance companies actually punish these women. This is simply amoral and unacceptable.

health insurance companies discriminate against women solely on the basis of their gender.

The average individual Maine health insurance consumer is paying four times as much today for health care as they did 10 years ago.

I personally hear this a lot about, oh, well, you should be able to buy insurance products from--you know, we should deregulate it so you could buy insurance products from all over the place.

I am deeply concerned that without additional checks and balances, this expansion will be a windfall for insurance companies.

I am not aware of any industry that is entitled to any guaranteed margin of profit. Are you?

In numerous States, nearly 90 percent of the health insurance markets are dominated by a single carrier.