This port deal is an example of the cronyism and backroom deals of this administration. The American people don't understand why we can't make our own ports secure. They want answers from the Bush administration, and so do the Democrats. |
This proliferation cannot and must not be ignored. It is a direct threat to peace in the Middle East, ... This carefully crafted legislation will strengthen the president's hand in dealing with proliferators. |
This provision would turn millions of immigrants currently here into criminals, hindering their ability to acquire any legal status, and would effectively frustrate the proposals that would provide real immigration reform. |
This Republican Congress is the most corrupt in history and the American people are paying the price. |
to avoid the waste, fraud, and abuse that have plagued Iraq reconstruction and homeland security spending. |
To have a commission appointed exclusively by President Bush investigate his administration's intelligence failures in Iraq does not inspire confidence in its independence, |
Trojan horse to wheel in some tax breaks for the high-end that they're so fond of. |
Troops may crush a protest, but they can never extinguish the flame of freedom that burns in every heart, here and in China, ... So when our administration says that we are going to take freedom to the darkest corners of the earth, I hope that includes the largest country in the world as well. |
turned their grief into action. |
Two months ago, some assured us that court-stripping efforts would stop once they [Republican leaders] got what they wanted on the Defense of Marriage Act. There is no pretense that this will end. What is next? Voting rights? Laws that prohibit racial discrimination? Civil liberties? Our rights to privacy? |
Under this administration, the value of no-bid contracts has skyrocketed Oversight of federal contracts has been turned over to private companies with blatant conflicts of interest. And when government auditors and whistleblowers do flag abuses, their recommendations are often ignored. |
Unfortunately, President Bush's tax panel is a Trojan horse, using so-called simplification to cut taxes for the wealthy while increasing taxes for middle-class families, |
Using Hurricane Katrina as their excuses the Republicans are again pushing their special interest agenda, |
We are determined to make this issue too hot for the Republicans to handle, ... They are just going to have to come through and they are going to have to do it soon. |
We are not where we should be at the start of yet another year of war in Iraq and Afghanistan . |