The motion picture industry, like all major American job creators, is part of a growing and interconnected world economy. But it might be surprising how important foreign movie theater audiences are to the millions of Americans who depend on the motion picture industry for their jobs. What country sells the...

Given the Internet's role in helping democratic activists the world over break through government repression, we must be vigilant in protecting free speech online.

But does freedom of speech require the freedom to steal? That's what some are arguing, comparing our efforts to protect American jobs from international criminal enterprises...

For the movie and television industry, and the 2.2 million American workers who depend on its creative products for their jobs, the Internet has become a major component and driving force of growth.

The fact is movies, television, music and other forms of intellectual property matter to our nation's...

When President Obama speaks tonight, America's creative community will, like all Americans, watch and listen and hope that our leaders will come together, help correct the course, and set our economy back on the right track. And, like workers and businesses in every sector, the creative community knows the importance...

Last week, mothers in Mozambique walked up to 15 miles on behalf of their children. They weren't part of a walk-a-thon or a protest, but their footsteps sent an equally powerful message: they were walking so their children could receive lifesaving vaccines to protect them from the blindness, deafness, brain...

Today, I spoke to the students, faculty, and staff from Central Connecticut State University, including members of their Latin American Association and the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Center. I laid out my vision for the future of U.S -- Latin America relations, calling for a fundamental shift in the...

On Mother's Day, Americans recognized the amazing women whose dedication has shaped our families and lives. But let's not forget to honor mothers worldwide, who also deserve our thanks. They nurture the future by offering children a fundamental security that no military could ever match.

Yet in some parts of...

Today is Equal Pay Day, the day until which women have to work to make up the earnings they were shorted in 2009 compared to their male colleagues.

Frankly, it's a little embarrassing that the fight for equal pay continues in the year 2010. It's hard to find anyone who...

Today on the Senate floor I addressed the recent misinformation campaign by opponents of meaningful financial reform. I set the record straight and explained how this bill will protect American taxpayers from having to pay for another bailout.

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...