Now is certainly not the time for Congress to embark on massive tax cuts or spending programs predicated on revenues we have not yet received. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

The world must understand that the responsibility for these military strikes lies not with the United States or its allies, but at the doorstep of Slobodan Milosevic…. Our diplomats, together with those of our British,...

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you’re not going to get a heck of a lot done.

Overshadowing all has been the president’s reckless, tawdry behavior, coupled with misleading statements that have undermined the dignity of the presidency, and brought about a divisive and unpleasant chapter in our history,

It’s a shame. So in September, we’ll be exactly where we are now, which seems to me to be a real pity.

by increasing the cost of a pack of cigarettes much more — closer to $1.50 per pack over 24 months. … We need to give teen smokers a jolt to get them to kick the...

The momentum that we were building toward consensus on a child care bill … has sputtered out, … It’s going to take a stronger and much more active push from the White House to get...

I think that it would be pretty hard to do this — the censure route –without … talking at all with the White House, the people who are going to be censured,

[Rhode Island Republican Sen. John Chafee said he supports calling witnesses in a limited fashion.] We’ve got to carefully screen them (witnesses) so that every Tom, Dick, and Harry they want can’t show up, …...