Eva M. Clayton: “Had I been present, I would have voted 'yea.'”

What we have seen, indeed we have no other choice, they say, other than to raid Social Security, and indeed we had a choice. We had a choice. We could have paid down the debt. Paying down the public debt would have allowed to us to protect…

Yes, I wish to make a departing comment. I want to visit an analogy for the American people to understand and for those of us who are in this debate; a contrast giving a corporate investment stimulus and tax break as investing in the…

over the last 9 years I have come to this floor to talk about the plight of rural America. I have talked about farmers, including small farmers, disadvantaged farmers and minority farmers. Today, I rise again to talk about the plight of…

the gentleman and I both know it takes a long time and is very expensive for people to become legal citizens, and tying food and hunger to citizenship is very difficult.