These shells behind us, these casings, are a testimony to the decades that have been spent creating weapons of destruction, ... The hopes in the programs that have been discussed today are that we can start using our resources to dismantle these arms and create a more peaceful and safe future for the people of Ukraine and for people all around the world. |
They are going to have to find immediate work, immediate housing, immediately get their kids into school and that probably will change the demographics of the region. |
They are two Illinois companies who want to do business and expand, ... but they are having roadblocks. |
This budget tells our veterans that if they want increased funding for the VA they'll have to pay for it themselves. |
This is not one of those situations where I think you can just jawbone industry into making the investment, ... This is not something that the markets alone will correct. We will have to use the government as a market-maker. |
Three months is a lifetime in politics, |
To provide an additional $50 billion in capital gains and dividend tax breaks over the next 10 years, while permitting many of these taxpayers to shirk their responsibility to pay their fair share of taxes is a moral outrage that should not be allowed to happen. |
To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent. |
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. |
Today, we recognize the simple truth that John Johnson was a part of all of us, |
Too many children have needlessly suffered from lead-paint poisoning, and we've already waited far too long to take action to protect them, |
we are a couple of U.S. senators. |
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. |
We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It's pretty hard to focus a moment on which there was any attention given. |
We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work. |