I wish to commemorate the past 47 years of service of over 190,000 Peace Corps volunteers who have served our Nation and aided developing nations worldwide. This week our Nation celebrates their contributions toward the elimination of…

I wish to highlight a couple important points about our economic stimulus efforts in the Senate. We have had an opportunity over the last couple weeks to analyze carefully what the American people expect in terms of a jolt to our economy…

We now learn that the President, in signing the Department of Defense authorization bill into law yesterday, has once again taken the opportunity to issue another infamous signing statement, imposing his own interpretation of a law over…

I answered them without blinking, without even stopping to think, because I know it is the truth, and the answer is yes, we are in a recession. I don't care about, nor do I need to wait, for some academic dissertation or some economist to…

I want you to know I will not read these two pages, but I want to highlight a couple of data points in this summary--two pages, four or five highlights. First, delinquencies, mortgage delinquencies, are up from the third quarter of 2005 to…

I have to say, I have never seen a crisis in the lives of a lot of families so understated, and I think irresponsibly so. I hate to say that, but there is no other way to say that in any other way. It is not, Mr. President, just some…

I have a lot of gratitude in my heart: gratitude for my wife Terese and my family for supporting me in my first year in the Senate; certainly for my staff... We are grateful for your skill, your knowledge, and your professionalism, and we…

I will not read the letter, but I outlined some of these challenges people have in their lives. I asked him to do a couple of things. These things are not difficult to do. These things, literally, require his signature on either…

with the passage of the farm bill, I want to commend the work of my legislative staff led by Kasey Gillette our senior legislative assistant. Kasey did an excellent job on both substance and strategy always focusing on how the bill would…

I rise today, like so many this morning, to talk about something we refer to by way of acronym. In case someone is just tuning in, when we are talking about FHA, we are talking about the Federal Housing Administration. We are talking about…

I rise today to speak about members of the American family whom we all care about, and I think all of us do in this chamber and across America, but for whom we do not do nearly enough to support, and those members of the American family…

I rise today, once again, to talk about a threatened veto by the President of the United States. We spent many weeks debating the Children's Health Insurance Program, months, really, when you consider all the time. People worked very hard…

I want to highlight a couple of things about the State Children's Health Insurance Program legislation. All of America knows about it. We have been debating this for weeks, and we will continue. Obviously, there are differences of opinion…

I rise today to address not only a major public policy issue for the State of Pennsylvania but also a fundamental issue of fairness and the proper role of Government, which I think will have an impact on the country as a whole. Recently…

As the chairman knows, the juvenile accountability block grant program, or JABG as it is more commonly known, is a bipartisan program that was originally created in 1998 for the purpose of strengthening and creating greater accountability…

I thank the chairman for her support of this valuable program and appreciate her tireless work over the years to get our States and communities the funding they need to fight crime. Her commitment to this issue is truly inspiring. While I…

I want to thank Chairman Mikulski for her leadership on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science and for engaging in this discussion on how we can best combat violent crime around the country. The chairman's…

And so, in addition to support for increased funding for the Byrne/JAG and COPS programs, my goal is to increase funding for JABG. Unfortunately, funding for the JABG Program has decreased dramatically since its inception. Originally…

The third and final pillar of a comprehensive U.S. strategy to coerce Iran into ending its defiance of the international community is to lay the groundwork for financial sanctions that make it increasingly difficult for Iranian companies…

the COPS Program was created in 1994, known then as the Biden crime bill, in response to historically high rates of crime. Over 100,000 community policing officers were hired to work the streets of communities across America. This…

I rise to speak on the challenge posed by Iran to our national security and the interests of our friends and allies, how the United States should best address the challenge posed by Iran and its leader Ahmadi-Nejad. This has been much in…

I rise for a few moments because I know there are other people in this Chamber who have worked for many years on this bill who wish to speak. Senator Kennedy is here. I wish to take a few moments to rebut what was said about a half an hour…

This center is providing important law enforcement services right now, helping out on international drug trafficking, which helps out in the fight against terrorism. ... This center plays that role. I urge my colleagues to vote against…

I rise to deliver tonight some brief remarks about a matter that a group of freshmen Democrats in this body have worked on together, and that is a bipartisan commission on wartime contracting and to expand the authority of the existing…

Quickly, by way of a response, I have to say that when I was the auditor general of Pennsylvania, our office authored lots of reports about waste, fraud, and abuse and about problems in spending. What we tried to do as well was not just…