At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.