Thomas Foley: “I want to make certain this language is attached to the bill as I read and outlined, that the $125 million appropriation…”

At great risk to himself and a 30-year career, he stood up for the U.S. Constitution and he was vindicated by the Supreme Court that he was right.

let me start by suggesting that I know all of us in this room are concerned about the viability of pensions. We want people who have worked their entire life to get the benefit of those investments. What we are also, though, trying to do…

The first vote you need to earn is your own.

I certainly understand the politics of petroleum. But I represent Florida, and I represent the coast that we consider a valuable resource for tourism, the environment, the ecology. Let me remind my colleagues the area that they are…