It was the wrong choice for the American people in this cold holiday season. |
It will not happen -- and the sooner he comes to that realization, the better off we are. |
It's a program where the lobbyists paid and Republican members of Congress played. |
It's designed to protect Big Oil while mistakenly believing that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will solve America's energy problems. |
It's disappointing that neither skyrocketing gas prices nor obscene oil company profits can break the bond between Bush Republicans and Big Oil. Americans are struggling to pay the rising cost of gas, and they are not interested in handouts to help oil companies make more money by letting them drill in wildlife refuges. Now it is finally time the Republican Congress acts to provide relief and to reduce our addiction to oil. |
It's going to take some Republicans of good will to be courageous and break from their leadership. They're getting tremendous pressure, and I understand that. But we feel good. |
It's like running up your credit card bills today because a fortune-teller predicted you'd be rich in 10 years. When the bill comes due, you can't pay with a prediction. |
It's long past time the Senate addressed the record high prices consumers have faced the past months. While oil companies have reaped record profits, middle-class families have been left wondering whether anyone had noticed. |
It's not like 9/11 that just happened. We saw this in the making. |
It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe. |
It's time this all ended, |
It's very clear that it's America's number one issue today. |
Just as the president and his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill are trying to slash Medicaid, today's report demonstrates that fewer Americans can rely on employer-based health care coverage and Medicaid is growing in importance for millions. ... We should be working to address the rising cost of health care, not cutting the bottom out from under our families, |
Justice O'Connor has been a voice of moderation and reason on the court and should be replaced by someone who, like her, embodies the fundamental American values of fairness, liberty and equality, |
Justice O'Connor has been the deciding vote in key cases protecting individual rights and freedoms on a narrowly divided court. The stakes in selecting her replacement are high, |