I rise today as we are beginning the discussion in earnest about how to create jobs in our country, how to help the economy, how to be responsible as we do that and how to help the States. Certainly my home State of Michigan, as most…

I rise today to talk about recent remarks made by the Director of the CMS, Mr. Tom Scully. Last month, speaking to an audience of health care providers in Lancaster, PA, Mr. Scully made the following comments on the Medicare Program. Mr…

I have argued for quite some time that consumers need more certainty and more transparency in the homebuying process.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much for holding this hearing.

I have joined with colleagues for some time in indicating that consumers need more certainty and more transparency in homebuying.

I think it is important that we are looking at these reforms.

Buying a home is the single most complicated financial transaction that most Americans will ever undertake.

first, as I begin, I know I share the feelings of all my colleagues, as we are debating this budget resolution and this important amendment, that our thoughts and prayers go to the men and women who are overseas, our troops who are being…

I wanted to clarify that, in fact, given the situation, they were performing an abortion to do that. That was the intent of the procedure. It was an abortion. Additionally, I say the mother's life was not in jeopardy, but her health and…

With the support of our families and our priest, Andrew and I made the decision to end the pregnancy. I was scheduled for a routine induction abortion in which medications are used to induce labor. My doctors anticipated that it would be a…

I interject, we are not asking that this right be given up to the courts; we are asking that these decisions be left up to a woman, her family, and her faith.

I appreciate the deeply held views on all sides of this issue. But first I will indicate there is not a more fundamental issue for the women of this country that relates to our privacy, respect for our own decisionmaking, as well as our…

I move now to another very important topic, and that is the question of stimulating this economy. We know that to get out of the massive debt that is being accumulated, we have got to stimulate the economy. We have to reverse the trend…

I rise today to speak, once again, about the urgent needs in our local communities for hometown security-- efforts for us to support local police and firefighters and emergency medical workers, including those in our local emergency rooms…

I agree totally with her sense of what our people are feeling in terms of the anxiousness about possible war, the anxiousness about education for our children, about health care, about jobs, about homeland security. We know there is a…

There is no doubt about it, while the President is talking about increased choices, what he is really saying is, if you want to get help with your exploding prescription drug costs, if you want to stop having to pick between meals and your…

Unfortunately, no. We have seen a consistent effort to put forward plans that are supported by the brand name pharmaceutical industry itself or by the insurance companies, but not those things that will lower prices and make health care…

Having APHIS report on these efforts to Congress would greatly assist us as we seek to assist with the eradication of this pest and as we seek funds to help contain and eradicate the Emerald ash borer.

as I indicated, my amendment is a sense of the Senate that insists that the conference report for the Omnibus Appropriations Act retain the Senate provisions that repeal the special interest vaccine component provisions that were…

thank you for clarifying this issue and for your support of this critical project. The Saginaw Tribe is eager to partner with the Department of interior to ensure that the educational needs of its people are met. Advanced Housing Research…

My good friend and fellow Senator from Michigan is correct; the Emerald Ash Borer has the ability to destroy our nation's urban forests. The threat is so great that the Departments of Agriculture for Indiana and Ohio as well as the…

My grave concern about the Cochran amendment is so many of our farmers--particularly family farmers--have been left out of this amendment. People such as Fred Tubbs have--with operating costs whether or not they have a crop. We have two…

I come with thanks and gratitude from law enforcement, firefighters, EMS workers, hospital emergency room workers, all across the great State of Michigan. I have held six different community meetings around Michigan in the last month…

Today I rise to keep a promise I made in November. On this, the very first day of the 108th Congress, I am introducing a bill that will remove the controversial vaccine component liability provisions from the Homeland Security bill. The…

On that point, we actually have counted the number of pharmaceutical lobbyists in the Senate. There are six lobbyists for every Member of the Senate: Six for me, six for the Senator from California, six for the Senator from New Jersey. Six…