Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

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

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

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.

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again