Fighting to improve health care for people in my state of Connecticut and across the country has been a crusade of mine for the last 25 years. The ability to care for yourself and your loved ones and to live a long and healthy life shouldn't be a privilege. In...

"Consumers, by definition, include us all," said President Kennedy in an address to Congress in 1962. Delivered only four years after the first widely-accepted charge card was issued, he could hardly have imagined the credit card boom to come -- or how much Americans would come to rely on them....

Today, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a credit card reform bill -- an important step toward cracking down on the deceptive and abusive practices that are standard operating procedure for the credit card companies.

To be sure, it's a far cry from where we were twenty...

We all know what an uphill battle reforming abusive credit card practices has been. As a twenty-five year veteran of that fight, I know it as well as anyone. But this morning, the Senate took a big step up that mountain.

Today, the Senate Banking Committee passed the Credit Card...

For me, Monday is a day on--not a day off--to serve my country. I remember standing as a boy, watching President Kennedy's inauguration many years ago. I remember being inspired as he asked his fellow citizens to serve their country, to give back to the country that has given us...

That the United States Senate would even have to debate whether to uphold the rule of law is infuriating enough. But two weeks ago, the contrast in priorities became too much: as the Senate refused to address the tide of foreclosures impacting more than 8,000 people every day, it was...

Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, has written a misleading op-ed in today's New York Times. Mr. McConnell's piece is a plea for Congress to renew the Protect America Act. I and other Democrats in Congress have been working to correct problems...

Our country has spent over four years attempting to unravel the story surrounding the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity by members of the Bush administration to a number of journalists. The leak jeopardized our national security and belies the administration's long standing claim that they and the...

Tuesday night's Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia included some of the most serious discussions of Iraq, Iran, and global warming that we've had thus far during the campaign season. I was happy to get the opportunity to speak clearly and directly to why I believe I've offered the boldest, most...

As required by Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution, Members of Congress are bound to support the Constitution. We take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will...

In looking over the Democratic candidates for president, some say there are no differences in our policy toward the Iraq war. I disagree.

In the Hanover debate on September 26th, moderator Tim Russert asked, "Will you pledge...

It is disappointing that on a day that the National Intelligence Estimate shows that invading Iraq has made our country less safe and al-Qaeda -- the group that actually attacked us on 9/11 -- has reconstituted itself and is stronger now that it has been since that attack, President Bush's...

This week, two military judges dismissed charges against a Canadian and a Yemeni detained at Guantanamo Bay, ruling that their war-crimes trials cannot move forward, throwing the entire military commissions process and those being held under it into question.

At issue in these cases is not simply whether Omar Khadr...