I think this is an exciting time where we can actually get a compromise between Democrats and Republicans, and we have to for this country. Now, I think we need not only to balance the budget in the future but we also need balance in the budget.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

We have an enormous part of the FBI in our counter intelligence division and in our cyber division that focuses on just threat and making sure that we do everything that we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.