There's certainly tremendous concern about this issue, as there should be, in Michigan and around the country.

I want to work with you on and work with the sponsors on is to make sure that... we are not incentivizing folks coming in from overseas.

It would not have happened without Senator Dorgan's leadership on appropriations and Senator Bingaman's.

with all due respect to my friend, the reality is that we have an economic emergency in this country. If 15 million people out of work isn't an emergency, I don't know what one is. So I would just fundamentally disagree with the Senator…

I don't think it is a different issue, with all due respect. ... could we not find an offset so we don't put this upon our kids and our grandkids?

I want to stress, when I came to the Senate in 2001, we were trying to figure out what to do with the largest budget surplus in the history of the country. I was in the House when we made the very tough vote to balance the budget under…

first I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his leadership and passion on this issue, and I am very pleased to join him in this amendment. I also thank the chairman of the Finance Committee for many hours on this floor working very hard…

I guess I would ask my friend back, would you agree that rather than decreasing the estate tax for less than one-half percent of the public, maybe we should make sure any dollars there should go back to somebody who doesn't have a job and…

I hope colleagues who express concern about people having access to health care will join us in voting yes. I thank the Senator from Minnesota for organizing and bringing us to the floor. I join her in speaking in favor of the President's…

This has been a perfect storm of a particular company that has had, according to the records, 97 percent of all of the egregious and willful safety violations being brought by this company.

I think it is important that we learn lessons from history, from the past. Otherwise, we are condemned to repeat them.

we are coming up to a critical deadline this week once again that touches millions of families across our country who don't have a job, not because they don't want to work but because they have not been able to find one in the hardest hit…

I do feel compelled, before asking a question, to make an editorial comment, because one of the things that I can see happening, in terms of where we focus accountability, is the fact that we're not looking at, more broadly, the…

First, I would say to our distinguished chair of the Banking Committee that when you describe communities where businesses have collapsed and left communities struggling, certainly we have many of those in Michigan. Through no fault of the…

today I pay tribute to an extraordinary man who passed away yesterday at the age of 92 years old: Ernie Harwell. For 42 years, families throughout Michigan tuned into their radios and welcomed Ernie's signature voice into their homes as…

I rise today to urge my Republican colleagues--to urge the Republican leader--to drop their filibuster of the Wall Street reform bill. I wish I could say this is the first time we have seen efforts to block moving forward to even debate a…

The Chinese policies amount to 'cheating'.

I thank my colleague for his extraordinary leadership on the Armed Services Committee and his efforts to make sure we have the staff, the leadership in our Department of Defense, our military, on behalf of our troops. It is very…

over the last several days, the Senate voted on a number of amendments to H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. This important legislation makes changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act…

Mr. President, we are here today because Republicans are objecting again to critical legislation and critical problem-solving efforts that are going to help middle-class families, that are going to help move us forward as a country. We…

first, I wish to thank the Senator from Illinois for his leadership on this issue, as well as my friend from Rhode Island who has been such a staunch fighter, and other colleagues on the floor. I can't help but think: Here they go again…

I think this is very much the type of smart effort that should be, could be a bipartisan, bicameral effort to put people back to work, to save energy, and to be good stewards of our environment.

the administration shares your total commitment to timely reimbursement.

It's going to be important for widespread participation to know that this is something that is very timely back to the business.

Senator Stabenow speaks powerfully and passionately about what they're doing in Michigan.