In July 2011 we believe--I am comfortable it is his intent we start to reduce the overall number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

But how do you reconcile that with, we will begin to assess it?

Thanks to the same old political games.

Thank you, Madam President. I wish to extend a special word of gratitude to my old friend who is sitting right there, the Sergeant at Arms, Terry Gainer; the Secretary of the Senate, Nancy Erickson; the secretary for the majority--where…

Although we do not always agree, as the debate on this floor will often show, I am always struck by the passion that drives each and every Senator to stand in this singular place in the world and to speak their mind. It is this passion…

We cannot have disgruntled TSA personnel trying to protect us on these flights.

We have to stop putting everything out in the--I am sorry.

every day we walk the hallowed Halls of the U.S. Capitol, a building filled with statues, busts, and paintings honoring great Americans--Lincoln, Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., names we will never forget because they are the…

Have our personnel received adequate training?

Because those packages were headed to synagogues allegedly in Chicago.

I do not have much longer in the Senate, but we ought to look at these private contractors.

Please take care of the TSA personnel. Some of them do not have health insurance. Some of them are working part-time.

On October 10, 2010, Taiwan--ROC--our good friend and our partner in peace and economic development will celebrate 'Double Ten Day,' its national day. I call upon my colleagues in the U.S. Senate to stand with Taiwan and to celebrate this…

I take the floor today to pay tribute to a group of Americans that blazed a trail, people who helped to shape the history we share, and whose contributions deserve recognition at the highest levels. There has been no war fought by or…

There is no price that we can put on what we can do if those veterans suffer from those chemicals.

I agree with Senator Sanders, who indicated that the cost of war is costly.

It is certainly my belief that we must take care of the veterans.

Let us not abandon those men and women.

I am so grateful to the distinguished Senator from Louisiana who has fought so hard to get this bill through the process of cloture, including an amendment attached to that piece of legislation which makes available $30 billion for the…

I come to the floor today to speak about justice and the Department of Agriculture. Let me go back a few years. Though civil rights legislation in the 1960s was supposed to have outlawed racial discrimination, at least on the Federal…

Will we miss strategic opportunities, given our current focus on today's wars, one particular region, and the current adversary?

I am here to speak about the small business legislation. The legislation before us is crucial to the recovery of our respective communities with this recession. As a public servant, I have been a strong advocate for American small…

For the past 2 years, this country has been held in the grips of an unprecedented economic crisis. The housing market collapsed. The bottom dropped out of Wall Street. And for the first time in generations, many Americans felt their…

For the past 2 years, this country has been held in the grip of an unprecedented economic crisis. The housing market collapsed, the bottom dropped out of Wall Street, and for the first time in generations many Americans felt their…