I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.