The United States has made significant gains against terrorism. We've decimated the core al Qaeda leadership, strengthened homeland security and worked to prevent another large-scale attack like 9/11.At the same time, the threat has evolved. The al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen actively plots against us. Since 9/11, terrorists have murdered ...

As Americans, we believe that honest work should be rewarded with honest wages. That certainly means that no one who works full-time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. And in the coming weeks, your senators will have a chance to stand up for that principle by voting yes or no on a bill to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour ...

Last Wednesday, I spoke about what we need to do as a country to build a better bargain for the middle class -- to make sure everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead in the 21st century economy.

Over the past four and a half years, America has fought its way back from the worst recession of our lifetimes. We saved the auto industry, took on a broken health care system, invested in new American technologies to reverse our addiction to foreign oil, and changed a tax ...

Time and again, President Obama has proclaimed that the private sector is the real engine of job growth. It is becoming increasingly hard to imagine, however, a President who could be more anti-private sector. That is in large part because Obama is anti-capital formation – the latest expression of which took the form of his desire to ...

Americans shouldn't surrender to the same philosophy that hurt middle-class families for so long.

For the past few days, we've all been properly focused on one of the worst storms of our lifetimes. We mourn those who were lost. And we pledge to stand with those whose lives have been turned upside down for as long as it takes to recover and rebuild—better than before. ...

Guess whether Prersident Obama is talking his 2009 stimulus or the 2011 “job’s plan”.

Round 1: ...