This year, let's give the folks at home something to cheer about.

It will help us to do what we must do to continue to fight to bring a reality check to Washington.

I'll admit that last year when this reform didn't pass I was disappointed.

I condemn in the strongest possible terms this horrendous act of terrorist violence.

This support package is not foreign aid.

We must make people matter again.

I do not believe Government can solve all the problems.

We have to act, act quickly, act with dispatch, and put the national interest first.

The time is now to act.

This is not simply a financial problem for Mexico; this is an American challenge.

We will look at the long-term problems that I've been asked to look at.

Passage of this bill fulfills a campaign commitment of mine.

I hope he never has to come home and work on this again.

I proposed the middle class bill of rights.

In 2 years we've made a good start.

Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Department of State, vice Sherman M. Funk, resigned.

It is not a blank check.

With their help, we will return to the important business of electing Democrats at all levels of government.