The truth is, even before bin Laden's death, our relationship with Pakistan has been strained recently, even fragile.

We need to be sensitive to both sides of this story.

We can play a role in promoting stability and prosperity, but we have to, in doing that, appreciate how deep anti-American sentiments run.

we have to have a game plan and stick to it...

twenty years ago this month we lost Senator John Heinz in an airplane crash. A family lost a husband and a father. A Commonwealth lost a tireless advocate for older citizens and our workers. I am honored to serve in the Senate seat he held…

we have a vote today on a measure to continue spending for the Federal Government for the next couple months. It amounts to nearly $40 billion in cuts. That is a good start. I think most Americans would agree with that. But it is only a…

much attention has been given to how the Ryan plan ends Medicare as we know it by turning Medicare into a voucher program. For example, on April 6, 2011, AARP wrote to Congressman Ryan: Today's budget proposal appropriately acknowledges…

There is no reason that we should be forced to choose among adequate environmental protection, energy security, and economic gain.

the people shall have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and aesthetic values of the environment.

It is a directive, a constitutional directive.

I know is proposing legislation called the FRAC Act that would go beyond public disclosure of chemical additives and give the EPA direct regulatory authority over hydraulic fracturing for the first time in our Nation's history.

I think we can get this right.

In our State, we went through most of the 19th century and roughly about half of the 20th century not getting it right as it relates to the extraction of a natural resource, in this case coal, and balancing that with environmental…

We are trying to close the loophole that is in the law as it stands now.

I view this as a simple matter of citizens having a right to know about any risks in their community.

I rise today to discuss the proposed cuts to nuclear nonproliferation programs in the continuing resolution, which I believe seriously endangers our Nation's security. When the Senate was presented with H.R. 1, the House's fiscal year 2011…

Thanks very much. Unless Vice Chairman-designate Brady, or Members have any other questions, I think we are adjourned.

This is a very high unemployment rate.

I think steady growth of three months does put you into another--you get a real picture, I think, of where you are.

Since February 2010, we have created about a million and a half jobs.

So 15.5 percent unemployment for African Americans. For Hispanic workers, the rate is 11.3? Is that correct?

Technically the Recession ended when?

Obviously I think we would prefer if it were 250,000 a month rather than 200,000, or even higher than that.

So I think we have got to pay particular attention to those veterans coming back from overseas. That is intolerably too high, 10.9.

As President Bush was leaving office in the early part of 2009, President Obama is coming into office...