As chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, I look forward to working with the White House and moving quickly in finding a successor,

With this first initiative from the Finance Committee - and there will be more in other areas where we have jurisdiction - we want the victims through all of the affected areas to know that they can count on us to create a set of measures that will return vitality and vigor to the Gulf region.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.

They are making it possible for a very close vote in the House of Representatives to be reversed, ... I'm not proposing that be done, but it could very easily happen... The Chinese government ought to make a clear decision-- Do they want to move forward or do they want these obstacles that put their relationships with other countries, including the United States, in jeopardy.

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.