Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.