If it were up to me--it is not, unfortunately, up to me--we would have a standing committee of the Senate that was focused on our kids and on their future.
the politics that are so corrosive in this place should be utterly unacceptable when we are facing that kind of challenge as a country.
To have a single mother of two kids working for $7.25 still be below the poverty line because we have allowed the minimum wage to collapse o...
These numbers are staggering. They are not, obviously, just numbers. It is human lives in what we think of as the greatest country in the wo...
It makes you feel like you want to be dead.
Look, I think everybody agrees that the EPA messed this one up, right.
Thank you so much for holding this hearing and thank you for including me. You did not need to do that.
I have said that the EPA should be held to the same standard as EPA would hold a private company for the spill.
It is my hope that the EPA's Office of Inspector General's report will provide more clarity and transparency on the spill.
Thank you, and since there are no other Senators here today, I can say today without fear of contradiction that it is an enormous privilege ...
Well, I appreciate it, and I just want to, as Chairman Gardner said at the outset, thank each of you for taking time to come here today.