Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.