$87 billion for Iraq just like that, no problem; $8 billion and we are hurting our people.

This is very dangerous for our people. This means we are not going to have funding for critical projects.

On January 28, 2004, Senator Boxer and I wrote you concerning EPA's proposal to deregulate over 3 billion pounds of toxic hazardous waste from government oversight.

I would argue that when people were blacklisted in the fifties the movie industry will tell you that it was for business purposes.

we want to really make sure that the American people are not--we always get back to this--deprived of a diversity of voices, be it political voices, music voices, all voices.

I think it is important, Mr. Chairman, as we go along to recognize that.

I would also argue that when you lead a rally, encourage people to bring CDs of a particular group because of what they said, and stand there and roll over these CDs, that I would argue on its face that seems way over the line to me.

I think that America really loses out when the new voices are not heard.

I think it does send a chilling message, and I think you are fooling yourself or you are not looking at what you did.

When Rush Limbaugh calls women members of the Senate 'femi-Nazis,' it is a hue and cry among certain people who take great offense at that.

But it was not good business for you to play the Dixie Chicks, right?

Even if they said, we do not want to hear this candidate because we think he or she is quite offensive?