Paul Sarbanes
Paul Sarbanes
Paul Spyros Sarbanes, is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from Maryland who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and as a United States Senator from 1977 to 2007. Sarbanes is the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, a record that will be surpassed by Barbara Mikulski by a single day when her term ends on January 3, 2017...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 February 1933
CountryUnited States of America
I regretted that the federal open market committee today continued to take interest rates up. You know, growth in the fourth quarter of last year dropped to just about one percent, the worst since 2002 in terms of quarterly growth in the economy. So, we're concerned about that.
Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.
All I wanted were assurances that BWI, Baltimore-Washington International Airport, that its needs would also be addressed,