I believe that health care is a right and not a privilege.

By repealing the tax breaks for the wealthiest among us we will now be able to target tax relief for the working family.

I am very proud to see that you and the President with this budget are trying to restore some equity and balance to our Tax Code.

Senators Kennedy and Hatch have introduced the comprehensive Serve America Act which includes the Senior Corps; and new Encore programs;

Are you buying this line well, maybe China would not act or India would not act, so we will not act?

My staff reminds me in Esperanza we lost five firefighters, and there was human activity involved.

Some of our fires of late, particularly the ones that we have experienced in my own territory, have been man-caused and not by accident man-caused.

Before the Recovery Act was signed into law on February 17, 2009, we were losing about 750,000 jobs per month. Since the Act was signed, we have been creating jobs, more jobs.

I really do believe he has the experience and the capability of giving an entirely new direction to the agency.

This is a place where, in terms of the homeless, your administration could have a huge, huge effect.

I believe that the veterans base of personnel could be a fabulous place, of course, to make breakthroughs relative to medical research.

I must say that, in your testimony and in the chairman's comments of concern about the homeless, there is demonstration there of an area where we might make great, great progress.

We write to enthusiastically support Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis for Secretary of Labor.

Yes, I do. I will work with concerned members of this body to make sure that we prevent the CEQ from operating the American Heritage Rivers initiative with public money without Congressional Approval.