Nothing is more important than ordinary people standing up: standing up for our values, standing up for what America is all about.

Mr. President, I am pleased that I could be here today to join you, to join Senator Whitehouse and our colleagues who have been working to try to bring to light for the public the serious and ongoing problem of excessive campaign spending…

Mr. President, the brave men and women serving our country in the military, the National Guard and the Reserves have sacrificed time away from their families, jobs and lives throughout Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi…

Mr. President, today I would like to recognize Mr. James A. Hanlon, who is retiring this month after nearly 40 years of Federal service at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Jim has spent his long and distinguished career at EPA…

Indian veterans deserve our gratitude, our respect and full access to the services afforded to all other veterans.

Madam President, I would like to follow up on the wonderful comments made by the minority leader. Specifically, I want to talk about the health care law and the ways that taxpayer dollars are now being wasted and spent in what appears to…

Native Americans have long played a very important role in protecting and preserving our freedoms.

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Lolo Jones, our beautiful Olympic athlete, wants to remain a virgin until she gets married--she is great. @Followlolo

Mr. President, this amendment is very straightforward. I will not ask for a show of hands among Senators, staff, or those who are following this debate, about how many of them got up this morning and took a vitamin pill. I did, and I…

Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 2127. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Illinois [Mr. Durbin], for himself and Mr. Blumenthal, proposes an amendment numbered 2127…

Madam President, it was 10 days ago the Chicago Tribune had a Sunday exclusive investigative report on fire-retardant chemicals, and the report went on for several days. I called the writers and commended them on the wonderful job they did…

Mr. President, on Monday morning, Eddie Blazonczyk, Sr., passed away in Palos Heights, IL. He was known in the greater Chicago area as the Polka King. Eddie was born in Chicago in 1941 to Polish immigrant parents--both musicians. It is no…

Mr. President, I rise to speak about the human rights issue of sexual assault in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers-- and the historic release of our country's first-ever national standards to eliminate prison rape. When the…

I will just close. I thank the Senator from Iowa. He will acknowledge, I hope, that no one tests dietary supplements. No one tests them. Companies that make these products may test them if they wish, but there is no requirement under the…

Mr. President, I respect the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Wyoming as well. They are two excellent colleagues, good people, and this is a tough bill. The underlying bill is a masterpiece of bipartisan accomplishment they can both…

Mr. President, how much time remains on my amendment? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Seven minutes.

The President's health care law is a travesty. The American people know it. They think it is fundamentally illegitimate, unconstitutional to its core, and enacted over the deep and loud objections of citizens and taxpayers. All 2,700 pages…