We're doing our best to push him through. |
We're going to have a vote Tuesday morning. Everyone knows there are not enough votes to support a filibuster, but it's an opportunity to people to express their opinion on what a bad choice it was to replace Sandra Day O'Connor. |
We're going to have an independent commission to study what went wrong, ... Mark my words, it's going to happen. |
We're going to reform Washington, ... After years of Republican scandals and abuses of power, it's a big task. But the American people are demanding change. |
We're spending a lot of money in the Gulf, ... We have to do that, but is there anyone in the world that can justify $70 billion in tax cuts? I don't think so. So before I talk about offsets, let the president focus on that. |
We're taking this step today because the global gag rule is an ill-conceived, anti-women, and anti-American policy. |
We've got other places where we're going to focus our attention, |
We've sent a message to the community that we don't want urban heliport sites, ... They have continued to negatively impact our neighborhoods and we don't want any more of them until we provide the non-urban site. |
We've spent endless hours, endless days, too many weeks debating radical judges and Republican attempts to abuse power. |
What has been the response of this Republican-controlled Congress to the administration's manipulation of intelligence that led to this protracted war in Iraq? Basically nothing, |
What I've heard here from everybody is, they are going to have an open mind. They will listen to the hearing, and we're all jurors going into this. We should have open minds, Republicans and Democrats, |
When the big oil companies came to Congress to testify about their record profits, we expected that they would tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Today, we learned that this was a standard they were not prepared to meet, |
When this administration took over, we had a surplus of--it's debatable how much it was, but some say over $6 trillion over 10 years, ... Now, we are in the red so far you can't see the end of the red ink. |
When we faced a similar situation after September 11, Democrats and Republicans came together and established an independent, blue-ribbon Commission, |
While other nations have ordered enough antiviral medication to treat between 20 and 40 percent of their populations, the federal government has only ordered enough to treat less than 2 percent of Americans, |