Legislation Is The Art Of Compromise.

The Best Solution Would Be Better Strategies For More Rapid Economic Growth And Getting People Jobs And Increases In Income. You Should Simply Be Clear About Matching Problems And Solutions. If The Problem Is Someone Can't Find A Job Because They Don't Have The Skills And They Need Some Retraining, Extending Emergency Unemployment Isn't Going To Solve That. You Need The Job Training Programs Or The Skills Bills That Come Out Of The House And Are Sitting In The Senate.

I Understand That During [sonia Sotomayor's] Career, She's Written Hundreds And Hundreds Of Opinions. I Haven't Read A Single One Of Them, And If I'm Fortunate Before We End This, I Won't Have To Read One Of Them.

My Republican Friends Are Lamenting Reconciliation. But I Would Recommend For Them To Go Back And Look At History.

Now Remember, We've Already Done More Than A Billion Dollars Worth Of Cuts. We've Already Done That. So We Need To Get Some Credit For That.

There's A Lot We Can Do To Improve American's Retirement Security, But It's Wrong To Replace The Guaranteed Benefit That Americans Have Earned With A Guaranteed Benefit Cut Of Up To 40%.