The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
From Sherrod Brown
The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should allow guns in day care centers, but they're protecting themselves by not allowing guns in their workplace, that would be in that category of lunatics.
With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.
Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.
What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy... without any of the tools!
If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.
Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.
People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.
Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It's not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you're working. You get help when you're not.
13 perspectives
8 perspectives
7 perspectives
6 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives