Bob Casey

What we have to say to President Assad can be summed up very briefly: step aside and allow your people to begin the peaceful, orderly transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

Mr. Assad must step down from power.

The Subcommittees, under the leadership of Senators Casey and Boxer, are to be commended, as is the U.S. Department of State, for their consistent focus on women's rights.

Can you assess what the Arab Spring means to women in a broad sense?

There is the risk to the freedoms and liberties of the people in the country and the danger to the rest of the world if these countries turn into some facsimile of Iran.

I think that breaking the sense of isolation, especially in places like Libya, that many of these women have suffered from over many years is perhaps one of the most important contributions we can make.

We have an extraordinary opportunity--we and the world--to take this historic moment and nudge it, push it, do whatever we can to have it move in the right direction of a flowering of democracy.

What is the best thing we can do here in the United States?

I rise for literally 30 seconds, because I failed, when talking about both the Mariani and Hornak nominations, to thank Senator Toomey, my colleague from Pennsylvania. We worked together on both these nominees to arrive at a consensus…

Controls are needed to secure the quality and quantity of all water resources--underground or surface.

No industrial endeavor is entirely without risk, so we must strive for prudent development and proper monitoring.

We must treat our waters with the same sense of value that we give all other resources.

While I support the development of our natural gas resources, Pennsylvania still bears the scars of mining and drilling from decades past.

I would like to thank Chairman Sanders for holding this important hearing on the recession and older Americans.

Older Americans continue to feel the effects of the recession.

Thank you, Senator Sanders. I want to, first of all, thank you for convening this hearing on this important topic, and I won't be here for all of the testimony but I am especially grateful.

I ask the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

$4 trillion over the next decade or so to get stability in the debt-to-GDP ratio

There is a unanimity about this issue that is pretty rare, across regional, party lines.

I ask an affirmative vote on this amendment. Trade adjustment assistance is very simple. We have a job crisis in the country. This program for decades now has helped people get through crises and, very importantly, has allowed them to be…

It is because of Senator Casey that we can track, in real time, the possibility of a flood and critical river level data.

This issue of child care is a bipartisan concern.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here, and all of our colleagues.

If we say we care about our kids, and as I've often said, every child is born with a light inside them, if that light is going to reach the full measure of its potential, then we've got to get a number of things right, and one of those, of…

I am incredulous that at the end of the day, United States taxpayer dollars go to the very people we're trying to defeat.