HOPE VI restored the most severely distressed public housing across America and did so while leveraging double the Government investment in additional private development capital.

I rise to explain my vote against the managers' amendment to S. 23, the America Invents Act. I agree wholeheartedly with the chairman of the Judiciary Committee that we must enable our inventors to out innovate and produce the products and…

We want to have ongoing conversations with you.

We would be also cutting back on what I think is an important part of our economic efforts to create jobs.

The fiscal year 2011 request for Europe and Eurasia is for Cyprus and is focused on encouraging the eventual reunification of the island.

the expectation and the outcome should, first and foremost, be employment, and that should be the first consideration in the design of the systems.

We're very proud of you as America's top diplomat in the way you've represented the United States of America.

Budgets are about values. They're about priorities.

They also have to be compensated and that has to be recognized.

Significant cuts to the budget could profoundly compromise ongoing and critical efforts in those front-line states.

But there is Haiti that had a tremendous response of the United States of America.

We have so many issues that we now see as directly related to our national security that would be severely impacted.

The United States goal in Cyprus is to build regional stability through a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus dispute.

I would like to thank the staff of USAID, both here and those who serve abroad, for, really, what they do.

We have, in these six managed care institutions, really iconic, world-class, internationally branded institutions taking care of our military and having spectacular results not only in treating acute care, but in managing chronic illness…

But what about in MilCon and deferred maintenance on the things that you really know are very specific?

we will have to defer hundreds of millions of facility maintenance projects because we won't have the resources.

I rise to speak against the Wicker amendment. This is the Republican's first of what I worry will be a sustained attack in the 112th Congress against Federal employees. As the Senator from Maryland and for Maryland, I represent more than…

the fact that there's not been another major attack on the United States of America, says something's got to be working and working pretty well.

I rise today to commend and congratulate the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, SRBC, in honor of their 40th anniversary. The Susquehanna River Basin Compact, which went into effect on January 23, 1971, brought together the Federal…

I rise today in very strong opposition to any attempt to repeal the health care reform bill. The Republican leadership has offered an amendment to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act. They are only keeping half of their promise. They…

This law puts a stop to that. Insurance companies can no longer abuse women after they have been abused by their husbands.

I support the health care reform law and I am proud of the benefits that this law gives to Americans.

I am proud of what we accomplished in health reform.

Health care reform saves lives and saves money. It puts more dollars in families' pockets and not into insurance company's profits.