We Need Leadership, And We Need It

This Country Is About, In My Judgment, Aggressive, Open Debate. There Is An Old Saying: When Everyone Is Thinking The Same Thing, No One Is Thinking Very Much.

I Am Proud To Be In The Senate. I Have Always Been Proud To Be A Part Of Our Political System. It Is A Remarkable Privilege To Participate In This System Of Ours.

If The Administration Does Nothing, High Gasoline Prices Will Continue To Increasingly Burden Our Economy, Taking Millions Of Dollars Out Of The Hands Of Families And Putting It Straight Into The Pockets Of Opec.

We Need Leadership, And We Need It Now.

This Country Lacks The Backbone And The Spine And The Will To Demand Fair Trade And Stand Up For Our Products. If Our Producers Can't Compete, Shame On Us. Then We Lose. But Requiring Our Producers To Compete When The Game Is Rigged, Saying Our Producers Ought To Compete, When Foreign Markets Are Closed To Us, Is Fundamentally Wrong.