These multi-agency Federal local partnerships require cooperation and compromise.

He'll bring that hands-on perspective to ONDCP.

the matter before this body is the majority's stimulus bill. It merges the products of last week's markup in the Finance Committee and the Appropriations Committee. Twenty-three Senators were involved in the Finance Committee markup. In…

If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, I will do my utmost to strengthen the Department's financial management and internal controls designed to prevent fraud.

I have decided to support Mr. Holder's nomination to be the next Attorney General of the United States. However, I want to make clear that just because I am voting to support Mr. Holder, this nominee does have a few issues that give me…

let me first say, I adamantly oppose and abhor discrimination of any kind, whether it is based on gender, age, religion, disability or race. I am a father to two daughters. I have five granddaughters and two great-granddaughters. I want…

I rise to introduce a bill today. Over the past several years, I have worked to establish greater transparency in the financial relationships and financial disclosure requirements between physicians and manufacturers of drugs, of…

If DOD's books cannot be audited, then the defense finance and accounting system is disjointed and broken.

I have been an advocate for whistleblowers because I value candid, unfiltered information they provide to Congress.

It bothers me that giving Rich a 'get out of jail free' card happens, and that's especially offensive to me.

I wish a President of the United States, previous and this one coming up, would have done that.

I have no personal problem with a pardon, but that you expected a howl from the Southern District.

You have admitted to poor judgment in your handling of this case.

don't you think that before the President--a President, in this case, President Clinton--decides to overturn the sentences of people like those in the video that we just showed doing what I said that they were doing, that the Justice…

Oversight helps make Government more transparent. The taxpayers have a right to know whether the taxpayers' money is being appropriately spent.

I think the False Claims Act... has been a very, very important tool for us to root out fraudulent use of taxpayers' money.

no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulation or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for 2 years.

I am so pleased to see that one of the President-elect's Cabinet nominations is an Iowan, and I want to personally congratulate you.

I think you spoke to this in your opening statement, so that is a pretty strong statement you made.

For a long time on this issue, I have worked with my colleagues Senator Feingold, Senator Harkin, and others.

Many of us in the Senate have worked hard in years to pass legislation to help restore competition in livestock markets.

He has been around agriculture in the family farm, as mayor of a small town, as a State senator, and as Governor of Iowa.

The only thing whistleblowers are guilty of is committing truth.

I would like to have you take a look at a letter that I sent to the Department NRCS early in December.

The issue of racial integration is the most pressing issue facing fair housing enforcers.