Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."