Occupation: United States Senator Birth: June 28, 1934
The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as w….
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation..
Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's….
The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution..
I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed ….
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices..
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an a….
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund i….
We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a….
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and ….
If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability to influence any po….
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our prese….
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq be….
It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraq….
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months ….
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of ….
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training….