Every family in America knows that our country has been through hard times in recent years. Now, finally, there's light at the end of the tunnel: our economy has added private sector jobs for 35 consecutive months; the national unemployment rate is down to 7.9 percent; the stock market is...

"Today is a bad air day." You may have heard this warning on drive-time radio, especially on muggy summer days. On "orange" days, the air is too thick with pollution for infants, seniors and people with breathing difficulties, who are warned they should stay indoors. Those people may miss work,...

In the 1950s, President Eisenhower started an interstate highway system to link our country, from Rhode Island to California. To this day, the interstate system remains the heart of our country's road infrastructure, supporting travel, commerce and transportation. This public investment paid off in long-term social and economic benefits for...

Back in 1985, President Ronald Reagan said: "We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that have allowed some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share."

Almost three decades later, we're still hearing about ultra-high income earners like Warren Buffett paying a lower tax rate than his...

If you read just the headlines these days, you might think renewable energy in America is going the way of Solyndra. Don't take our word for it: a recent headline from Fox News declared "ENTIRE Solar Industry on Brink of Collapse."

We cannot allow long-time opponents of...

I've met students across Rhode Island who rely on Pell Grants. They work hard, play by rules, and are doing everything they can to get the education they need for the jobs of tomorrow. Yet during the debt ceiling negotiations, House Republicans made it all too clear that this vital...

Yesterday's Washington Post headline says everything you need to know:

"In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts"

We, as Democrats, must stand firm against any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. Period.

So I'm introducing a Senate resolution to tell the President and congressional budget negotiators...

In recent days, the rumors that President Obama is considering cuts to Social Security and Medicare have continued to grow.

Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare.

It's time to draw a line in the sand. Join...

One year ago today, an explosion ripped through the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico -- devastating countless lives and an entire ecosystem.

Today, big oil companies involved in the disaster are exploiting legal loopholes in an effort to get off the hook for the worst...

Following an all-too-brief period of public scrutiny, Bank of America announced last week that it's back to business as usual, resuming 102,000 foreclosures in 23 states. Like several of the other large mortgage servicers, the bank had voluntarily frozen foreclosures earlier this month in light of revelations that its agents...

Right now we are facing one of the biggest threats to Senate progress, and, frankly, to democratic senate elections we've ever faced: Secrecy.

As early as next week, the McCaskill/Wyden/Grassley bill to stop secret holds is going to the floor for a vote. And, as you can imagine, there...

Over these last two months we have watched the unfolding disaster in the Gulf with horror. We have seen precious lives lost; hard-earned livelihoods hammered; treasured ways of life imperiled. But we have seen something else too -- something that ought to be a lasting lesson from this catastrophe: we...

As we continue to fight in the Senate to reform Wall Street regulation and establish an independent consumer protection agency, I hope to also address a problem that has caused considerable pain for so many American families: runaway credit card interest rates.

Credit card companies charge interest rates that...

This morning, millions of people all over this country woke up hoping today isn't the day they get sick. Millions of Americans went to work wondering whether today would be the last day they get paid in a while. And millions sat up late last night at the kitchen table,...