This Senate can, should, and has shown the ability to reach balanced budgets--no, in fact, surpluses--within living memory. In fact, when President Clinton was the President, this Senate and the House acted together. They adopted budgetary…

I could not agree more that we need to be responsible; that the United States and this Senate need to face our serious and crippling national deficits and debt. It was a good idea when Thomas Jefferson recognized that a balanced budget…

I thank Senator Kirk. I am grateful for the Senator inviting me to join him in a real debate on the floor on an issue about which we disagree and about which we cast opposing votes earlier today. It is an issue of real import to our…

I would defer to the head of the Catholic Church in Congo, Cardinal Monsenguo, who in a superb statement of just a few days ago urged the Congolese Supreme Court to do the right thing.

Thank you, Mr. Dizolele.

this is a political issue.

I had understood Senator Durbin was making his best efforts to join us and now may have been unavoidably detained.

Please, if you would, describe the technical assistance that the United States is prepared to offer the Congolese authorities to facilitate their conducting a transparent and thorough review of the election process.

I have heard from a number of constituents real concern about Cameroon and President Biya who modified the Cameroonian Constitution to run for a sixth term.

If we do not fix political legitimacy and we do not, on behalf of the United States, engage in governance questions, then we can do all the work we want to... and we will not have addressed the real driver.

I just want to congratulate you and the agency for being a very successful partner in the war on terror.

How does the FBI differentiate between a criminal cyber threat and one that implicates the national security?