We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.