We know that the overwhelming percentage of people who are incarcerated on crack violations are African American and minorities.

I want to talk a little bit about the U.S. Attorneys and the supervision of U.S. Attorneys.

DHS said it had done an "exhaustive" search of its databases and could find no information relating to the MSP surveillance operations.

The United States must exercise leadership, there's no question about it.

I believe that we should lead, we should pass legislation, and we shouldn't make a precondition that China or India or any other country agree to the standards.

We all know the problem: The U.S. imports over 65 percent of our oil from foreign countries--many of them openly hostile to our country.

I think the conclusion is pretty obvious.

I thought it was the right message and I hope a bill at least as strong will move through this Congress and be signed by President Obama.

I thank you on behalf of the people of Maryland, but more importantly the people of the world for your extraordinary leadership in bringing attention to this issue so that, politically, we can get something done.

The roads between Baltimore and Washington were very clear today. Maryland did a good job in cleaning the roads, in case you are wondering.

Congress should have been appropriating more money. We're at about 50 percent of what we said was the minimum level for appropriations.

Thank you for being willing to serve your country again.