Sen. Paul Simon: “You face a much harsher judge . . . than this committee and that is the judgment of history.”

A rising tide of red ink sinks all boats.

Find compassion in your heart for our most vulnerable and sweetest citizens, our children.

Just in response to one item mentioned by my friend from Tennessee. He and I agree on Social Security. We differ on the Reid amendment. When he talks about 110 percent of debt versus GDP in 1945 after World War II, what that ignores is…

I think it is worth reminding ourselves also, as we talk about Martin Luther King, his last effort was in behalf of custodians--janitors, if you will--in Memphis, TN. We have a country today where 23 percent of the children live in…