Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.