What Graves does, really--it's a good idea for the rental companies.

I want to thank you for having this hearing.

To be able to recover from the damage that they have caused leaves, folks like Mr. Ruby under the present law, without recourse.

in the midst of all the strife and partisanship and ideological rigidity that makes it so difficult these days for us to bring about consensus in the world's most deliberative body, there is the occasion at the first of each of these…

in a few hours we are going to be voting on whether we want to take up the Defense bill. That should be a no-brainer, for, after all, defense of the country is one of the most important things the U.S. Government can do. We are going to…

I also wish to share some observations of a recent visit I made to another troubled part of the world. In Colombia, I witnessed a country transformed. I went there with our four-star commander, General Fraser of the U.S. Southern Command…

I would just say in conclusion that one of the things I learned when I sat at the knee of Tip O'Neill was that he and President Reagan would fight like the dickens, but they would walk out the door at the end of the day as personal friends.

Can you imagine President Obama and Senator McConnell and Leader Boehner coming forward after this election and embracing a report of the deficit Commission that would be passed, has to be passed by 14 of the 18 members?

I think what Senator Nelson said about us needing bipartisanship at this time, because this debt crisis that we have...

we are down now to passing what we have tried to pass so many times, this small business assistance bill, which is going to create a $30 billion lending facility that will work through community banks. The small business lending fund will…

Along with Senator Chuck Schumer, I have introduced legislation, S. 3264, to address the abuses.

For the record, I want you to tell us, how are we going to right our deficit situation without stabilizing the housing market?