I would also like to thank Senators McCain and Kyl for sponsoring this legislation and for their continued commitment to responsible recreational shooting in Arizona.

I am pleased to join with my colleague from Utah, Senator Orrin Hatch, in introducing legislation to renew an existing Federal program to provide tax incentives for the installation of equipment to refuel cars and trucks with alternative…

there are currently 48 vacancies on courts that the Federal judiciary considers to be judicial emergencies. Let me restate that. Filling these vacancies is now such a priority that they are considered judicial emergencies. One of those…

This is a great thrill to be here to nominate two exceptional individuals, Judge Marco Hernandez and Michael Simon.

I'm particularly concerned about some of the permitting issues that have arisen.

I rise this afternoon to take a few minutes to talk about this issue of campaign ads being run all across the land and millions of dollars being spent by groups with misleading names, leaving our voters without any knowledge of who is…

It seems to me we've got a long way to go to get that in place.

You can have a debate about whether there ought to be loan guarantees and whether you ought to have the program.

You know time is money. Stop working costs money.

it is clear from the debate on the Defense bill and the vote that was held a bit ago that this is a partisan time for our Nation. I come to the floor this afternoon to talk about an issue that is not at all partisan; that is, the question…

I have felt for some time that it's important to make appropriately redacted versions of these reports available to the public.

I am pleased to join with my colleague from Idaho, Senator Mike Crapo, in introducing the Geothermal Energy Investment Act of 2010. This legislation will amend an already existing investment tax credit for geothermal energy authorized…

Now, just weeks ago we also passed the Tribal Law and Order Act. That is a big, big deal.

We have to focus like a laser on trying to put people to work and resurrect the economy.

I think it is the case to say that we have perhaps accomplished more legislative success for American Indians in the last 12 months than existed in the past three decades.

Those who were here first should not have second-class health care or second-class housing or second-class educations.

We finally at last, at long, long last have passed the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. And we not only passed it, we made it permanent.

I rise in support of the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. A lifetime appointment to the highest Court in the land is a serious matter, and confirming each Justice…

I rise today to introduce the Enforcing Orders and Reducing Circumvention and Evasion Act--or the ENFORCE Act-- of 2010. We all know what a tax cheat is; well let me tell you about a trade cheat. You see, under U.S. trade laws, when a…

today the Senate has passed legislation that will make a historic investment in our children by approving the first increase in real terms of the reimbursement rate for school lunches in 40 years. Now 10,000 children a year will have new…

the tax debate misses the point because both of those approaches, George W. Bush and now what has been offered by President Obama, in my view, involve tinkering with a badly flawed, discredited tax system.

By comparison, from 2001 to 2008, when there was just partisanship in the tax area, three million jobs were created.

Senator Gregg and I are saying, no. Why not go with a model we know worked when Democrats and Republicans get together.

When Ronald Reagan and Democrats worked together, 16 million new jobs were created. There was a 17.6 percent expansion in payrolls.

Why would one think that the tax policies that produced anemic job growth and declining real income for the middle class... would create substantially more jobs and substantially more income in the pockets of middle class folks?