Occupation: Former U.S. Senate Member Birth: March 2, 1953
People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifet….
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy com….
The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the ai….
Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency, because they can ….
When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the m….
Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two b….
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to ad….
I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ough….
The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke the law and lied….
Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and….
I don't worry too much about what people think about my image, but I think I am pretty polite. My colleagues say I am a gentleman in my dealings with….
He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies. I'm no….
We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law..
Why should we believe people who constantly try to push these trade agreements and won't even admit when one has gone wrong? It makes working people ….
It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party..
The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as opposed to what it doe….
Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagal….
One can see the results of those policies in hundreds of communities around my State. As one might expect, our largest communities - places like Milw….
I have long believed that Israel should seek to give up the so-called Occupied Territories in return for security, and that a Palestinian state shoul….
Jews know the Palestinians. And they know they're not really different. And they know they are from the same background. And they know if they coordi….
Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to ….