Senators of both parties have worked hard to limit the costs of the economic recovery legislation. This bipartisan amendment that I offer with Senator Snowe and Senator Lincoln will, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, reduce the…

Last week, Americans were horrified to hear the news that Citigroup and other companies receiving taxpayer money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program were paying their employees billions and billions of dollars in bonuses. Today, along…

There is a powerful argument that your proposal is simply not retroactive. It is his judgment, based on what he has been able to look at thus far, it would be constitutional. Mr. Kleinbard states specifically: Taxpayers can avoid the tax…

I have been able to get the FBI on record saying that with their approaches it is possible to secure the information through interrogation of these human ticking time bombs without torture.

I think we've got to expand the public's right to know, and that it's possible to do that while at the same time fighting terrorism ferociously.

I believe firmly, constitutional principles are fixed.

I certainly--that's my understanding, and it's my understanding that that's the view of others who have studied this.

as the Senate turns to the economic recovery bill I believe there is a message coming to the Senate from Oregon and every corner of our country. The message is that Americans do not want a bailout. They do not want a handout. What they…

the outdoors is a great passion for the people of Oregon, and it is truly a good day for Oregonians. The Omnibus Public Land Management Act contains protection for a number of our special places, our treasures; in the case of Mount Hood…

You now have to go in there and drain the swamp, and America has heard you say, this morning, to your credit, that that is priority No. 1.

despite the record transportation funding that Congress provided in the 2005 Transportation Reauthorization bill--SAFETEA-LU--our Nation's infrastructure is being stressed to the breaking point. Our ports and rail lines are at or near…

without China participating, it is not going to work.

I have raised this with, hopefully, the Secretary-to-be, currently Senator Clinton, about the need to engage in robust diplomacy.

I think in a very real way, the ball game on climate change is bringing the Chinese and the Indians into a global agreement.

I feel pretty strongly that going forward all the countries of the world, China and India included, have to be included in a carbon plan to reduce the emission of carbon.

We have got to go in and thin out these forests because of the risk of fire.

Are you going to follow the flawed Bush blueprint for nuclear fuel reprocessing or do something different?

He wants to make it clear that they can keep the health coverage that they have, and that is going to be protected.

Simply trusting China to--they have their own internal needs to have high rates of growth.

The bottom line is this essentially green-lights more without dealing with the enormous amount of waste that we have.

Barack Obama, to his credit, made two pledges in the campaign with respect to health care.

I think it is very important to do both.

But you have to examine this new piece of legislation through the filter of some very unfortunate history with respect to the original program.

I think you said that the U.S. will take the first step and hopefully China will follow.

This is not about a program or a bill. This is theory.