Senator Collins and I have been working on this issue together, and earlier this week we joined with our colleagues to introduce the Advancing NIH Strategic Planning and Representation in Medical Research Act.

Real progress on Alzheimer's and other brain-related diseases and injuries require more funding from NIH, and this is truly an area where we get what we pay for, and right now we are not investing enough to stop Alzheimer's.

the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission spent years looking into the causes of the crisis and identifying the Fed's failure to regulate subprime mortgages as one of the key drivers of the collapse of 2008.

This kind of second class status is not how our government is supposed to work and it has real implications.

It is a central principle of our American democracy that Americans, through their votes, can have a say in their own governments.

The 4,000,000 people who live in the territories are not the subjects of a King. They are Americans.

Even former Chair Greenspan admitted that the Fed made a mistake by failing to regulate subprime mortgages.

I was told that even though you played a key role in blowing up the economy, that I needed to hire you

you lost faith that the agency would become a truly independent entity and carefully balance consumer costs and access to credit with consumer protection.

Of all the people who might be called on to advise Congress about how to weigh the costs and benefits of consumer regulations, I am surprised that my Republican colleagues would choose a witness who might have one of the worst track…

Well, the question we are asking here is whether or not it is ethical to price the way you have priced.