If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.