A coordinated response commander for Asian carp would provide the insistent, hands-on leadership that prevents the Asian carp from establishing itself in Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes.

I share your commitment to take all necessary action to prevent Asian carp from establishing in the Great Lakes and commend your leadership on this issue.

the speech which the Senate just heard from the minority leader on the Republican side is consistent with the Republican position on health care reform. They opposed it. They voted against it. They want it to fail. They do not want to give…

the Senate is returning to Washington after the Fourth of July holiday recess. The week before we left town, in the Senate Judiciary Committee, we held a hearing for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. The hearing lasted…

The New York Times editorial today reads: ``Who Will Fight for the Unemployed?'' I want to quote a few sentences from it: Without doubt, the two biggest threats to the economy are unemployment and the dire financial condition of the…

In response to the Republican leader's speech, I have three words: Drill, baby, drill. That was the chant we heard across the United States from the Republican side of the aisle during the last Presidential campaign. The notion was that if…

21 years ago, I went up to Prince William Sound to see the Exxon Valdez spill. I say to the Senator, I know he knows, as a native of Alaska, firsthand how terrible these spills can be, the impact they can have in the short and long term…

But I ask you, you do not disagree with the premise, that if you feel that there is discrimination in our society and even though you respect the institution, the military in World War II, but know there was discrimination, that speaking…

I am sorry this Court, the Supreme Court, which is supposed to be a non-activist Court, decided to invent a legal theory to deny you recovery.

I was there when President Obama signed his first bill, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and I was glad to be part of that.

And yet he didn't hesitate to tell corporations that they aren't a part of 'we the people' by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.

the military commissions violated the law

the Court's decision last fall in the Citizens United case, which several of my colleagues have mentioned, is the latest example of the Court's pro-corporate bent.

He felt--and I agree--that our system is broken, badly broken.

I think most justices of the Supreme Court do, at this point, fully accept the Griswold holding.

The American people, I think, need to have confidence that you, too, will stand up for our basic constitutional rights if you come to conclude that the President has overreached.

the value of free speech on the one hand and the value, really, of protecting and defending our country on the other.

One of the aspirations of the American judicial system is that it render justice equally to ordinary citizens and to the most powerful.

Minnesota banned all corporate spending in state and local elections in 1988, and yet in January, in Citizens United, the Roberts Court nullified our state laws and turned back a century of federal law by allowing corporations to spend as…

I share the fear expressed by Justice Stevens in his dissent that the Court's focus on results--on results--rather than the law in this and other cases will do damage to the Court as an institution.

What makes the Citizens United decision particularly troubling is that it is at odds with what some of the Court's most recently confirmed members said during their confirmation hearings.

With few exceptions, whether--and I'm echoing Senator Cardin here--whether you're a worker, a pensioner, a small business owner, a woman, a voter, or a person who drinks water, your rights are harder to defend today than they were 5 years…

Citizens United has the power to drown out the voices of average Americans.

Essentially, five justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us. So they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law.

the Supreme Court has not ruled on the legality of detaining an individual for providing material support to terrorism