“I would ask unanimous consent to place in the record the full statement of Alan Gross, an open letter to President Obama from 78 foreign policy thinkers and leaders.”
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.
We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.