I believe Richmond is the place where it has the longest track record.

With so many Americans struggling to pay their bills, why--why--did thousands of the worst off, including hundreds of Rhode Islanders, have to wake on Monday morning to find their unemployment benefits and COBRA subsidies had expired? Why…

In evaluating this concern about the deficit, we have just determined that the policies of the other side of the aisle contributed to virtually all the national debt we have inherited. Then let's look to the situation now because I think…

I very much appreciate the Senator from Illinois yielding for a question. If the Senator would not mind a series of questions, the first question has to do with, I guess I would say the sense with which we on this side of the aisle should…

I want to assure him, through the Chair and through this question, that as the distinguished Senator from Missouri has just said, this was not planned on our side, at least not by me. I came for the votes. The only surprise tonight was my…

The question I was asking is, Is it not fair to ascribe to that Republican administration and its policies the responsibility for more than just the difference between $5 trillion and $12 trillion? Because if those policies hadn't changed…

If we have established that it was the Bush administration and Republican policies that created virtually all the national debt we now carry, and if we have established that when the mechanism that many believe would be the best vehicle to…

I wish to speak just briefly about today's vote. Today, this body, in a rare but very welcome moment of at least partial bipartisanship, voted to pass Leader Reid's jobs bill. While that bill does not include every provision I would like…

I cannot think of an area in my personal life where I would refuse to act until 100 percent certainty was achieved.

I think if we do not take action the judgment of history will be extremely harsh.

There was a book called Merchants of Doubt written about the public relations and propaganda effort to raise doubt in order to create political maneuvering room for these industries.

I hope that you do not take away from this particular room any new doubts about the quality of the science that supports, I think, highly legitimate concerns about climate change.

I think Neville Chamberlain's Willful Blindness has justly earned the opprobrium of history.

bad things can bring out the best in people, and I rise today to speak about our response to the earthquake that devastated Haiti last month and, in particular, about the compassionate efforts that Rhode Islanders have made to help those…

I just wanted to make sure that there was no doubt in anybody's mind here that climate change is happening, and it is happening as a result of human emissions, and that the consequences are adverse for our planet and species.

So, your best recommendation at this point is to expand the scope of the regulatory process so that it is by chemical category and not just by individual chemical.

It is important in the Senate for issues to have champions.

Senator Lautenberg has for a long time been a very significant champion on these health issues.

So, we want to get it right on both sides. You do not want false alarms.

Those resources can matter a lot when it ends up to thousands or even tens of thousands of attacks daily and weekly.

I believe that the extent to which the country is under cyber attack is under-appreciated by the public.

I find it extremely discouraging that... all this committee can talk about is where Mr. Abdulmutallab was Mirandized.

I rise this morning to join Chairman Leahy's eloquent and inspiring remarks of yesterday and express my strong disagreement with the Supreme Court's decision released last week in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission. In this…

It is fair to conclude that investment in this emerging technology provides cumulative benefits as we enhance our competitive position.

I would like you to put Government support for solar industry in the context of the development of that industry in international competition and the role of technological leadership in securing future economic opportunity and advantage.