While many hours have been spent by this body debating the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, far too little time has been devoted to the United States' growing dependence on private military contractors: the weapon-carrying, for-profit…

Macroeconomics, a nonpartisan forecasting firm, said that those cuts would throw about 15 million more people out of work, double the unemployment rate from 9 percent to about 18 percent, and cause the economy to shrink by about 17 percent…

the Solyndra bankruptcy has generated a political controversy, as you might expect when taxpayers take this big a hit.

Both 'Mr. I.' and Mr. Frantz made it clear that Solyndra's application was not in any way rejected by the Bush administration.

I think it is very important to clarify the record regarding the history of the loan guarantee.

I would like to address one specific refrain from our Republican colleagues, the assertion that the Bush administration rejected--that is a quote--Solyndra's application, only to have it revived by the Obama administration.

Everybody has the same issues: the underground systems, the water systems, the overhead systems, the bridges. I wonder sometimes about those who don't support the American Jobs Act. Don't they drive over bridges? Don't their families drive…

These are called public works projects for a reason. They're done by the public sector. They are good for our country. They are good for our economy. They put people to work. And that's exactly what we ought to be doing, and that's what…

Why should the conscience of an employer trump a woman's conscience?

It never used to be that family planning was considered a partisan issue and it never used to be that family planning was equated with abortion.

Allowing employers to exempt themselves in providing prescription contraceptives for their employees is counterproductive, unfair, and paternalistic.

The Catholic Church is all of the people in the Church, which includes the 98 percent of Catholic women who use a contraceptive.