I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.