Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

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

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

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

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!