Debbie Stabenow

What creates leverage for consumers is to go into an exchange where the insurance companies are competing against each other to be able to lower rates.

It actually was a Republican idea in the beginning, when we really had hoped this would get beyond partisanship.

I would suggest, for them and their families, they would consider that a pretty big deal.

Thank you, Mr. President. First, let me say Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my friends and family and colleagues in the Senate. (The remarks of Ms. Stabenow pertaining to the introduction of S. 758 are printed in today's Record under…

We do not have a middle class unless somebody makes something.

I do not think the taxpayers or workers whom they leave behind should be subsidizing that.

So when you look at the Clinton years, we actually raised the top two rates on Americans, asking them to pay a little bit more to help balance the budget, created 22 million jobs, and actually saw a robust economy, asking folks at the top…

The Bush years, which everybody seems to want to go back to, President Bush's years only helped those at the top, left everybody else waiting and holding their breath--will it trickle down?

Now, we are back. Again, in 2012, we asked those at the top to do a little bit more. Our friends said the world would end. It did not end.

I appreciate your efforts to address currency manipulation in international forums like IMF and the G-20, but these actions have not kept pace with increasing adverse impacts of currency manipulation.

But let me just say that, since they agreed through the IMF that they were not going to do this, they have done it like 300 times, something like that; I have seen the number.

Fewer Americans are going into bankruptcy because of medical crises.

Tax credits are helping people afford coverage.

Folks who have been paying into health care for a long time are finally guaranteed they are getting what they are paying for.

We want to make sure that it is work where you can work one job and be able to care for your family.

The best thing that Congress can do to improve the service that taxpayers receive from the IRS is to approve the President's budget request in totality.

Using natural gas to increase American manufacturing output is twice as valuable to the overall economy as just jobs in general

We know jobs are created when we build export facilities, right?

I don't know why we wouldn't wait for that to happen if we want to make sure we're doing this the right way.

This is a big deal here. We have this great new resource for us in America that's giving us an edge

I would just argue this is more than about numbers, and right now what I am most concerned about--we have eliminated two-thirds of our annual deficit in the last few years.

We would be out of debt right now, $12 trillion, because different priorities.

What I get frustrated about is that we see things that have worked during the Clinton years, asking folks to pay a little bit more, we balanced the budget, 222 million jobs created.

What people in Detroit want to know is that there are public lights that work and roads that work and schools that work and safe neighborhoods so that police and fire come when you call.

I would suggest that because we have a value of supporting education as a country, it does involve the public sector.