Barack Obama

It is important for him to get to South America and Central America personally next year.

The national emergency declared in Executive Order 13396 of February 7, 2006, with respect to the situation in or in relation to Cote d'Ivoire is to continue in effect beyond February 7, 2011.

I send my best wishes to the people of India and to those here in the United States and around the world who are celebrating India Republic Day.

A million electric cars on the road.

We can't take that attitude.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the proposed Protocol and related Agreement and give its advice and consent to their ratification.

We reaffirm our shared commitment to see that the winner of the recent elections takes his rightful role as President of Cote D'Ivoire.

Bills won't land on his desk without the support of both parties.

We support, as the President mentioned last night about the people of Tunisia, the universal rights of the people of Egypt.

I am proud to nominate him to serve on the United States Court of Appeals.

The only way we're going to meet that challenge is to do both, to do all of it.

Here in America, we play to win.

Our troops come from every corner of this country. They're black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American. They are Christian and Hindu; Jewish and Muslim. And yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be…

Now, I strongly believe that we should take on once and for all the issue of illegal immigration. I am prepared to work with Republicans and Democrats to protect our borders, enforce our laws and address the millions of undocumented…

It's no secret that those of us here tonight have had our differences over the last two years. The debates have been contentious. We have fought fiercely for our beliefs. And that's a good thing. It's what a robust democracy demands.

As we mark this occasion, we're also mindful of the empty chair in this chamber, and we pray for the health of our colleague and our friend, gabby Giffords.

So tonight, I am proposing that starting this year, we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years. Now, this would reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade.

At stake right now is not who wins the next election. After all, we just had an election. At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country or somewhere else, whether the hard work and industry of our people is rewarded.

We need to get behind this innovation, and to help pay for it, I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own.

We are part of the American family.

We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.

This freeze will require substantial cuts, including to programs the President supports.

We need to allow the upper-income tax cuts to expire.

We need to reform the way our government does business.

H.R. 359 would kill the system, not strengthen it.