We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

We all know if we change the bill, it's gone.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

Simply put, music can heal people.

I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.