China does basically whatever it wants while we grow weaker and they grow stronger.

Our legislation would give you strength, and I would bet my bottom dollar if this legislation passed and you talked to them, you would find a lot more changes than just talking to them without any--by going into them disarmed, which you…

This is an amazingly bipartisan Committee.

You laid out the policy China has, which is mercantilism, not free trade.

So help us change the law.

I am delighted to endorse Mr. Lew's nomination to serve as the next Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

To not act is unjustifiable. It costs American jobs.

I think it would make a difference.

I hope you will be able to work with the Commission, if that is appropriate, but certainly to work with us as we respond to the Commission's recommendations.

It is clearly time for a change in strategy. It is time to move beyond just the talking that we have heard and action, serious action.

the only progress I think we feel we have made is now everyone admits it is a problem, you do and everyone else, but no one does anything about it.

We want to make sure this is a priority in every jurisdiction around the country.

I would like to take this opportunity, and I think I speak on behalf of all of our colleagues, certainly in sentiment if not my exact words, about our friend and former colleague, Ted Stevens. On Tuesday we were all deeply saddened to…

I would remind my colleague that just this morning he voted to use $1.5 billion in stimulus funds for the DOE Loan Guarantee Program. One of the problems, as you know, is we have had this catch and release, or even catch and take to…

I think this is significant legislation. I ask the Senator if he would amend his request to include the adoption of three amendments. Those amendments are Nos. 4590, 4591, and 4592. They are: $200 million for Operation Streamline, which is…

Today, I join my cosponsors--Senators Reid, Inouye, Murray, Feinstein, Bingaman, McCaskill, Casey, Udall of Colorado, Begich, and Burris--to try to make our borders as secure as possible. We are asking unanimous consent to pass a smart and…

I wish to thank my colleagues from Maine, Senator Olympia Snowe and Senator Susan Collins, for their courageous support of this measure. I would like to take a moment to talk about the critically important component of the legislation we…

I always said I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. I know my colleague from Arizona has focused on this issue for at least as long as I have. I was involved in the original legislation back in the late eighties with a great deal…

The bottom line is this. I like the H-1B program, and I think it does a lot of good for a lot of American companies. In fact, in the immigration proposal I made, along with Senator Reid and Senator Menendez, as well as the outline with…

Today, I rise in ardent support of the legislation before us. Let me be clear. This critical funding bill is about one thing and one thing only; that is, saving American jobs. Congress should be focused like a laser on fighting…

My gosh, are we ever slow learners.

The Government of the United States of America ought to serve the United States of America.

There really ought to be zero tolerance for that.

Is it not true as well that as chair of the committee, you have offered them every opportunity and all kinds of amendments and all kinds of compromises in the committee before we got to the floor and now on the floor?

Is it not true that many of the amendments the other side wanted to offer had nothing to do with small business whatsoever?