I would call that good news.

Thus, I have made foreclosure prevention my highest priority and will continue to do so.

So as long as the perfect storm created by unemployment and foreclosures remains over us, it is incumbent on us to do more and do more soon.

According to the numbers you gave us for January and February of 2009, it is about 1.5 million jobs lost.

Veterans from the post-2001 period Gulf War, I am told that that rate is higher than the national Veterans rate?

I voted for it. And a lot of the Democrats did. There is a real debate about what has been working and what hasn't been working.

I think anything that Congress could do to encourage Prime Minister Fayyad to work with Israel--not unilaterally, but together--I think that's crucial.

The cost of overweight and obesity is another reason to address this crisis: we spend almost 10 percent of our health care dollars treating people who are overweight or obese.

The prognosis for these children is grim: 80 percent of overweight 10- to 15-year-olds are obese by the time they turn 25.

Our children deserve the whole grains and green vegetables needed to develop healthy minds and bodies.

Feeding our children healthy food is a priority and must be funded as such.

I think the Israelis have shown, certainly in the last year, that they've been willing to make real concessions.

What can the Obama administration or--and/or, I should say--the Congress do to move that forward or to--in particular, to put some--what I would argue would be appropriate pressure on the Palestinians to come to the negotiation table?

We all know the statistics on overweight and obesity: two out of every three Americans are overweight or obese, and 20 to 30 percent of children are overweight.

Let me add that the reference to the Congressional Budget Office--that has been the referee or the arbiter of what is used as a number for health care, what protections are for spending--I heard the summary of that same report on the House…

I had the opportunity a couple weeks ago to sit with 8 of the 560,000 people in my State who are out of work. In Pennsylvania, that 560,000 adds up to 8.9 percent of the workforce, but it is an incredibly high number--maybe not a record…

The ones I have met in that--they call it a career link, a job center--of those eight individuals, all but one--but maybe even the one--of those eight people were in their fifties, sixties, or seventies. In most instances--probably five…

I rise today to discuss the ongoing imprisonment of three young Americans--Joshua Fattal from Pennsylvania and two other Americans who have been in prison in Iran with him, Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer. These are three Americans who have…

The Senate jobs bill, which passed this week, is a step forward and an encouraging sign of bipartisanship.

But you agree it is a problem?

I don't see literacy being addressed in the WIA Act as something that can be used to really impact this pipeline.

We are hopeful that it will serve both as a practical starting point for improving the efficiency of U.S. and global efforts in this area and as a rallying point for those who agree that food security should play a much larger role in our…

I would like to put Ex-Im Bank on steroids because I think it does so much good work for American companies.

If we abandon these countries once we are in there and engaged, there is a very real possibility that we will pay a higher price in the end.

I rise today to discuss the Gettysburg Coin Act, which I was proud to introduce with Senator Specter. This legislation commemorates one of the most significant events in our Nation's history. The Gettysburg Coin Act would produce a…