Barbara Boxer: “I ask that the Senate resume consideration of Calendar No. 98, the nomination of Regina McCarthy to be Administrator of…”

The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.

We have to have the people who were Republicans before really just drop that label and either become Democrats, if they can’t get themselves to do that, to become nonpartisan, independent voters.

when people lose hope that they can`t make it from poverty into the middle class, and then when they`re stuck in the lower middle class, they can`t make it a little bit higher, it`s a very unhappy place for the country.

A rising tide lifts all boats, it was true then. It`s not really true now.