We're calling to give you the good news that this Congress is now fully sworn in and ready to work with you.
The American people rejected an open-ended obligation to a war without end.
Our first order of business is passing the toughest congressional ethics reform in history.
The election of 2006 was a call to change.
For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.
I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship.
Nowhere were the American more -- people more clear about the need for a new direction than in the war in Iraq.
Nowhere were the American people more clear about the need for a new direction than in the war in Iraq.
All of these have been vetted through the committee process. Some of them have even passed on the floor.
... a Congress that will pass legislation the first 100 hours to make American people safer, make our economy fairer, ma...
The campaign is over. Democrats are ready to lead.