Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.