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

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.

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

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

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

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

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.