Occupation: Former U.S. Senate Member Birth: March 2, 1953
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….
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about th….
The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the ma….
Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit..
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic..
I've done what I've always wanted to do. But as one Senator said, just because you're doing what you've always wanted to do, it doesn't mean you have….
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….
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 ….
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….
The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and mi….
Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions..
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….
If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted..
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….
I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administra….
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty ….
I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, be….
I believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians, by and large, want peace, they each want their own country, and they want to get along, and they ar….
Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging a….
I'm proud to be a Democrat..