Thank you for your thoughtful question concerning whether proposals to have the Pell grant increase at the rate of inflation plus 1 percent would meaningfully address college costs.

I think one is to get this amendment in so that we reestablish confidence in the government.

States are going to apportion their representation based on what this gentleman and his department does.

The count is to be for citizens.

I found it offensive and I found no basis in law for them to force me to answer those questions.

It is not about partisan issues, and it is really not about State. It is about doing what our Constitution says.

California will have five extra seats that they, in fact, do not deserve on resident citizens.

Senator Durbin and I can work and accomplish through our colleagues in the Senate and the House, what has happened over the last 2 years.

None of us want to handicap our President in terms of the advisers that he can have, and to clarify, we want him to have the best and brightest.

there is not a greater civil rights violation than to say you are transporting somebody to freedom and then rape them along the way

When you create doubt or you sow doubt... I think he does himself and his administration a disservice.