I wish to start by talking about the process. Here we are, once again, at the end of the year, 1 week before Christmas, dealing with a very sensitive, a very emotional issue that is of critical importance to our men and women in the…

Frankly, to run in an omnibus bill at the last minute out here that has thousands of earmarks--some of which folks like me requested months and months ago, and until 2 or 3 days ago had no idea those requests would be honored and are now…

I rise to support the amendment offered by my good friend from Oklahoma. America is today at a crossroads--a crossroads where we have the opportunity as policymakers to go in the direction that the people of America said we should go in on…

America's fiscal house is in disarray. Our budget process is broken, and future generations will end up paying the price if we continue to ignore the difficult decisions required to fix this grave threat to our country's fiscal stability…

The agricultural sector continues to have a lot of problems with the guest worker program especially with regard to the timing.

What if it does happen? What if those 265,000 resign from the military over the next short period of time? What are you going to do?

as an original cosponsor of S. 510, I am very disappointed that I cannot support tonight's cloture vote or the final passage of this bill. Since the bill's introduction and throughout the HELP Committee mark-up process, there has been…

I regret to have had to vote against cloture. Now that cloture has been invoked, I guess we will go to the bill, and, hopefully, we can make the necessary changes in it to improve this bill. But, frankly, the bill I originally cosponsored…

I hope that at the end of the day amendments will be allowed; that we can come up with a bill that is positive and that closes these gaps we have in the food safety inspection program in this country. Senator Klobuchar and I have worked…

such comments are simply unacceptable.

Did Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss find the person in his office who sent that hate-filled death threat to a Web site?

such comments are, quote, "simply unacceptable"