Mitch McConnell

It is simply a choice that our farmers and ranchers and foresters should not have to make.

We can't support job-killing taxes and adding tens of billions to the already unsustainable national debt. The only reason the unemployment extension hasn't passed is because our friends on the other side simply refuse to pass a bill that…

But we can't support job-killing taxes and adding tens of billions to the already unsustainable to the national debt. So the only reason the unemployment extension hasn't passed is because our friends on the other side simply refuse to…

I am an emotional person about injustice at any level, personal, societal or global. There are wrongs that need to be righted, and that's how I see the law.

I believe it was Washington. It certainly was one of our founders who was quoted as saying at the constitutional convention the Senate was going to be like the saucer under the tea cup, and the tea was going to slosh out and cool off, and…

I meant that the political system should take up the issue to assure that people have health care, yes, Senator, not in a legal or a rights sense at all.

I made that statement, I believe that statement, but you changed the rules and we are now operating under your rules.

The filibuster is a tool that has been used to protect minority rights in the Senate.

It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that I am not in favor of such a proposal.

Some members of the Democratic conference would like to eliminate the Senate's long-standing tradition of the freedom to debate and amend legislation.

It would be my commitment to ensure total and complete impartiality and to ensure that whether the poor or the rich came before me, that they would be treated fairly.

We cannot allow endless taxpayer funded bailouts for big Wall Street banks. That's why we must not pass the financial reform bill that's about to hit the floor. This bill not only allows for taxpayer funded bailout to Wall Street banks, it…

We cannot allow endless taxpayer-funded bailouts for big Wall Street banks. That's why we must not pass the financial reform bill that's about to hit the floor.

This bill would provide endless protection -- endless protection for the biggest banks on Wall Street. In other words, it gives the government a back-door mechanism for propping up failing or failed institutions.

Given the high rate of unemployment within the veteran's population, what is the Department of Labor (DOL) doing to help ensure that these brave service members are able to find jobs when they return to civilian life?

I support this effort because it promotes the efficient administration and completion of Federal construction projects.

Telemedicine is a tool that would seem to have potential to provide improved access to healthcare services for rural veterans.

Ireland Army Community Hospital at Fort Knox is one of the oldest hospitals in the Army.

I don't know anybody in my Republican conference in the Senate who is in favor of doing nothing on health care. We obviously have a cost problem or we have an access problem.

Many of these insurance reforms, we could pass on a bipartisanship basis. Put you wouldn't have to cut Medicare by a half a trillion dollars or levy a half a trillion dollar tax increase. Put that on the side and let's talk about insurance…

I don't know anybody in my Republican conference who is the Senate who is favor of doing nothing on health care. We obviously have a cost problem and we have an access problem.

Or, in the Senate, we saw the Cornhusker kickback, the Louisiana purchase, the Gator-aid.

Good Jobs for Everyone is an investment that will help reduce discretionary spending as well as speed the Nation's economic recovery.

Unfortunately, on the air side, the situation is dire.

I can count on Pat Leahy taking the leadership on his side while I try to do the same on my side.