I will continue to offer Connecticut a different path forward. I went into public service to find solutions, not to point fingers. To unite, not divide. To lift up, not to tear down.

When you get to the truth and the consequences, you will see that I am the same person that I have always been.

When the votes are counted tomorrow, I'm looking forward to being called Connecticut's comeback kid!

The two big lies of Ed Lamont, Joe Lieberman is a cheerleader for George Bush. Ridiculous. I've opposed most of what this president has asked us to do through Congress.

This is all about the Iraq war, and all about the anger, almost hatred, among a lot of Democrats toward George Bush.

We better do something about it soon, or we could come to a tipping point where it will be hard to fix it without disastrous consequences.

That they're engaging in the kind of partisan election-year politics that has caused so many Americans to lose faith in the direction of our government.

Senators Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Susan Collins of Maine are leading this charge. They are recommending, and it is just a recommendation, a new agency reporting to the Department of Homeland Security, but that will also have a…

People who do this, with all respect, they have to be held accountable.

Short-term, there must have been -- first up, they shouldn't have bought these things if they had looked at their own regulations.

That's a colossal waste of taxpayer money and a colossal failure to help the people who really need the housing.

What was going on with FEMA? This is another in some ways, yet more outrageous example of what happens when your Federal Emergency Management Agency doesn't prepare.

I think we are better prepared because of the powerful lessons and embarrassment that the federal government suffered. Are we totally prepared? Or are we as prepared as we should be? I regret to say, the answer is no. And I don't want to…

Did you tell Mr. Hagin in that phone call that New Orleans was flooding?

They went to sleep Monday night, as Secretary Chertoff said, thinking New Orleans had dodged the bullet. Meantime, in New Orleans, the poor people are drowning.

Republican Susan Collins, chair of that committee, and Joseph Lieberman, its ranking Democrat wrote to the White House weeks ago to complain that most of the documents the panel requested had not been provided.

I think we were both stunned by the continuing devastation that exists.

Trust between the people and their elected leaders is essential to our democracy.

There is no intention in any of these bills to limit the capacity of organizations like yours or others to get their members to lobby Congress.

The intentions in the bill that Senator McCain and I have put in would be to force the light of disclosure on all forms of grassroots lobbying.

The behavior of Mr. Abramoff and his associates undercuts that trust and sends the message that in Washington, results go to the highest bidder, not to the greatest public good.

I got a kick out of the very accurate point that Mr. Miller made that the Abramoff scandal was broken in the first instance not by any enforcement mechanism, but by other lobbyists who felt that Abramoff was taking their clients away.

I hope that we can work together to make sure that does not happen.

At least one of the bills, Senator Reid's bill, makes an attempt to make it illegal for a member to take or withhold action in an attempt to influence a private employer's hiring decisions for partisan reasons.

By doing so, our Committee, under your leadership, sends a strong and clear signal that Congress will come together across party lines this year to reform our lobbying laws and remove the cloud of suspicion that currently hangs over this…