I love a debate, but I would like to debate on the facts. The facts are that this is what happened until we had the tax holiday. Now there is a new hue and cry: You did it in 2004; never do it again. Well, I think it is a good thing that…

I am astounded by this new-found fiscal responsibility I hear from the other side of the aisle. I wish to ask my friend a question: Do you know what the debt was when Bill Clinton left office and George Bush took over and there was a…

I find it extraordinary that after 8 long years of Republican rule around here, where we saw the debt go from $5 trillion to $10 trillion, and not a word from the other side about fiscal responsibility, with tax cut after tax cut to the…

My friend is so right to ask that. Sometimes debates are difficult to follow. They are confusing and complicated. This is not complicated. We know the way the corporations were acting before, and we know what happened when we took this…

Joint Tax ought to backtrack. They were flat wrong. They said maybe $200 billion will come back, and $360 billion came back. They said we would lose money. We wound up with $16 billion added to the Treasury. So it is very easy to demagog…

First of all, this isn't a shop-worn argument. This is an argument that is going to create jobs, if we win it. Who says it? Laura Tyson: Repatriation policy provides a short-run stimulus and would make funds available to support the…

I was aware. The Senator is absolutely right. They said it would cost $3 billion from the Treasury and, in essence, $16 billion was added to the Treasury, and even now they are saying over the first 2 years there will be $5 billion added…

Nobody gains in America when that money sits offshore. They did not gain in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. We had Oracle buying companies that were failing. We had Cisco Systems expanding. Yes, we know there were job…

I want to take 60 seconds to respond to Senator Thune. He says he doesn't want to point fingers. He is pointing fingers all over the place. He says we are here today talking about a trillion dollars. Let me tell my colleagues what we are…

The bill Senator Mikulski is urging us to vote for simply restores the law to what it was in almost every State in the country before the Supreme Court dealt us a very serious blow and said, in fact, you had to move from the minute the…

We need a national standard according to the courts.

My plea for today...is that we can have not just a 24-hour cease fire, or a two-day, or a 4-day cease fire--although every hour of quiet is good--we'd want a seriously long cease fire that leads us somewhere.

the personal relationships that he was able to garner in the United States Senate changed the course of many issues.

I hope that this committee will move, and I hope that this administration supports the ratification of CEDAW.

This is a tribute to Dr. Romer. It is one of those days that we often have here where you want to be 17 different people.

I strongly support you.

I don't think any nation--I don't care how large or small, weak, strong, or rich you are--could live with rockets coming across.

I think we're all heartbroken, and frightened, and disturbed about what has happened, and what the situation is on the ground.

How do you convince people at the U.N. to open their eyes to these rocket attacks from Hamas?

This is about the Office of Children's Health. They have been undercut and underfunded in their mission to protect children's health.

I would urge you to use your dynamic personality and your character and your experience... to reinvigorate the EPA.

Can we get that assurance that you will be there for us?

I think this says the Senators have confidence in the selection of you to have this position.

Personally, I think this was a prize-winning series that they did.

We were able to write a bill to ban asbestos, which passed through this Committee and passed through the Senate.