I do not see much in the way of focus here on middle schools.

It risks crowding them out because of the priority.

I can assure you that I am prepared for that work, and I think every member of this Committee would be prepared for that work.

Are we condemned to a race to the bottom in which corporations end up paying essentially no share of our national revenues?

Another potential win big seems to me to be turning what is presently nuclear waste into nuclear power.

I do not see good news around the corner.

We have the potential of a very significant wind turbine farm going in offshore.

If there is something that is sort of basic and American, it is that when you are dealing with somebody else, you ought to be able to get a person on the phone who can make a decision in your case instead of being stuffed into this…

Every one of us has heard it from our constituents.

Social Security as a program is not actuarially at fault for the need that we will have to fund the cash needs.

Health care consumes about 18 percent of America's GDP right now, and the closest country is at about 12 percent.

I think it is fair in terms of that to at least exempt President Clinton from responsibility for our deficit.

The distinguished Senator from Oregon, Mr. Merkley, showed a photograph a little while ago of Jimmy Stewart in ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'' That has become the sort of emblematic, signature demonstration of the American Senate…

we come to the end of this Congress having once again failed to harness the economic potential achievable through reform of our Nation's energy portfolio or to heed the dire warnings put forth by our planet about the effects of our…

Thank you, Leader. Some say we do not have to worry about the consequences that will come from what we see happening around us, that we do not have to attend to nature's warnings about the effects of what we are doing because God will get…

I rise to make a few brief remarks in honor of Congressman Patrick Joseph Kennedy of Rhode Island. With Patrick's departure from the House of Representatives to seek new challenges and enjoy some well-earned time out of the political…

while serving on the impeachment trial committee, I heard evidence that convinced me that Judge Thomas Porteous had a long history of corrupt behavior, deceived this body during the pendency of his nomination to serve on the federal bench…

I thank him for his leadership, for his compassion. I was proud to join him as a cosponsor of his legislation. It is disturbing to me that his effort to speak for these families who have lost their loved ones has fallen on deaf ears and on…

I am here to draw attention to what I consider to be an urgent need that we include an extension of the Treasury grant program for renewable energy projects in any upcoming tax legislation considered by the Senate. These are called 1603…

Under the circumstances of this case, I know the objection was founded upon concern that this would defeat the expectations of potential defendants who might otherwise have to pay this verdict. As I understand it, the two most likely…

may I first say how proud and privileged I feel to have been on the floor during the distinguished speeches of the senior Senator from Iowa on behalf of his friends and colleagues, many of decades' duration. I am still in my first term…

I rise to speak in support of S. 4005, the Preserving Criminal Assets for Forfeiture Act of 2010, which I recently introduced with my distinguished colleague Senator Cornyn. This bill will help keep the proceeds and instrumentalities of…

Rhode Island seniors get an average Social Security benefit of $13,500 a year, which makes it tough sledding to live on in the cold Northeast in the wintertime. The COLA adjustment is misfiring for seniors. Their heating costs go up, their…

the job market is still suffering from the fallout of the recession from the end of the Bush years. The unemployment rate nationally is near 10 percent; in my State, it is well over 11 percent. The proposal of Chairman Baucus would inject…

I would respond by saying that even if we assume that the right answer at this point is to continue a massive tax cut for people who make--I think it was most recently reported that the 400 biggest income earners in the country earned an…