Congress and financial regulators can and should work together to stop these abuses.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council, working with other agencies, should establish reporting and data collection requirements to detect and to stop abuse of structured financial products to circumvent leverage limits that safeguard…

The IRS should seek to collect taxes owed on billions of dollars in basket option profits unjustifiably claimed as long-term capital gains.

before the Senator from Tennessee leaves, I wish to thank him very much for joining Senator Boxer and me in this Senate to create a dynamic that will enable us to do our job. He shows time and again the courage to keep out of step when…

Senator Isakson and I have talked about and introduced legislation focused on advanced illness and that component of life's journey.

One of the things that Senator Isakson looked at and I looked at is just having these kind of advanced directives or other tools be recognized across State lines.

For years, I have sat here with our labor friends from the postal unions, especially to the letter carriers, and urged them to work with the Postal Service to find a way to continue to deliver mail on Saturday.

I just want to make sure that the Postal Service is profitable and viable.

unless we do our job that they may be compelled, no help from the Congress and the President, to close another 80 or so

I think leaders are humble, not haughty.

When we passed our legislation 2 years ago, 62 Senators voted for it.

I feel very good about that and have been back a couple times since.

I led a Congressional delegation back there in 1991 to try to find the truth, what happened to a couple thousand of our men, mostly men, some women.

Leaders are purveyors of hope.

This can turn out a whole lot better than some were willing to believe just a few years ago.

I think working with Congress, both houses.

We were told a couple years ago that going from 6 to 5-day-a-week service for the Postal Service would save $3 billion a year for every year going forward.

the committee which I am privileged to chair, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and on which Senator Portman serves is responsible for working with the administration and others to help make sure that Federal…

These people are desperate.

It is not, in my opinion, a border security crisis.

People are afraid to be successful in business, because if you are, you will get extorted, and if you do not come across with the money, you will get killed.

the United States, in addition to helping the people of the region, have a real foreign policy and strategic policy imperative to remain engaged.

As Chairman Carper noted, it must be a shared responsibility.

I believe that the United States, along with Mexico, Colombia, and along with many others, need to do a better job of helping Central American countries help themselves.

I like to say sometimes in trying to figure out how to solve a problem, there are no silver bullets, but there are a lot of silver BBs and some are bigger than others.