My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don’t go with a story unless you have two...

I want to get this done, … I want a strong bill to go to the president’s desk, and, based on this hearing, I think we have a lot of work to do.

My intention to vote for Judge Roberts tomorrow should in no way be construed as a weather vane for how I might vote on the next nominee, … In the past I have not hesitated...

We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge leap without even a [congressional] hearing,

I think it just looks absurd for us constantly to shovel out tax breaks when executives go on television and say they aren’t needed, … They don’t need tax incentives.

Secrecy will not stand,

It’s time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It’s time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for...

the government isn’t in the consumer protection business anymore.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Democrats don’t say what we’re for instead.

We cannot abandon them, and this legislation finds a fiscally responsible way of extending this successful law.

And the single hardest thing, … is to get people beyond those points.

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam...

That’s an astounding theory of consumer protection,

They got the right people involved to stop the activity.

It’s time to force these objections out of the shadows and into the sunshine.

[But Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said that last week’s breakthroughs were less the result of shrewd parliamentary maneuvering than of simple arithmetic: GOP majorities in the House and the Senate, combined with a...

Everybody comes to a hearing, and they could be giving the same position paper from 10 years ago. All they need to do is change the dates, … If you look at the tapestry of...

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

We have a bit more direction today than before, but . . . there is still a long way to go.

She will face some very significant questioning, I believe, in the hearings, but she certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Oregon’s fishing industry is a critical part of our state’s economy, and it will benefit in many ways from this Federal support approved today, … The dollars included in this bill will also go toward...

This corporation resorted to a variety of legal, regulatory and accounting contortions to keep investors and the public in the dark, … It is now high time for the Congress to flip on the light...

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.

now strikes a much fairer balance by protecting critical rights for our country’s citizens and advancing intelligence operations to meet our security needs.

How is it,

[Do businesses] want one standard to govern the privacy rules in this country or do they want 50? … If they want some measure of preemption, they have got to support a bill with some...

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it’s grotesque.

I hope events unfold as he suggests, but I’m not yet there. I heard the president, for example, say that some Sunnis were in support of this,

We want to give the department real teeth to protect the public. This would give the federal government meaningful authority.

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to...

There have been indications for some months now that taxpayer interests aren’t protected. I’m glad the Defense Department is finally coming to ask some tough questions. They should have been raising these issues many months...

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

His answer was, ‘I am concerned with judicial independence. Congress can prescribe standards, but when Congress starts to act like a court and prescribe particular remedies in particular cases, Congress has overstepped its bounds.’

It’s brute power. Much of this is about who’s the last in the room, and it reflects badly on the Congress.

Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is a grave error that demonstrates a willful ignorance of human nature....

The testimony I have read makes it clear that additional resources are needed and needed now, … There is neither the time, nor a need, to wait for a torturous legislative process to begin equipping...

I asked whether it was constitutional for Congress to intervene in an end-of-life case with a specific remedy,

It is imperative that the federal government fully comply with the reporting requirements. The National Practitioner Data Bank is only as good as the information it contains.

They just have great cards. They’ve got all three branches of government. They’ve got the bully pulpit.

We’re not mandating fluffier pillows or creating a legal right to a bigger bag of peanuts, … What we’re troubled by is that unlike other retail establishments, the airline industry basically keeps you in the...

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

It seems to me the shareholders came first.

Today’s modest action starts the long march to start to reform the tax breaks as they relate to the oil industry, and limits these incentives to the smaller oil companies that actually need the help...

The United States Senate is not here to just staple the paperwork on this deal and then salute it. We’ve got to go in there with an editing pencil, not a rubber stamp.

This is indeed a concern, … We will tackle it.

I believe very strongly that no jurisdiction in this country has shown that they have been hurt by their inability to impose discriminatory taxes against the Internet, … State and local governments have a right...

I’ll tell you, gentlemen, it’s this kind of case that makes many of us in Congress skeptical that it’s actually a new day,