Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

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.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.

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