Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.