All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

American workers are first rate.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.