Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

We have always said we're going to have a compare and contrast on the public policy issues.

In the autumn, Bradley came out with his policy positions and we entered a compare-and-contrast phase. We're in that same position this week.

Senator Bradley is choosing to be an echo to Al Gore's voice in proposing policy that Al Gore has already been fighting -- the minimum wage increase, more teachers and tax credits for working poor.

We have a policy here: When you cramp, you're going to take the next day off.

My policy preference would be to ban all earmarks. And we're working on various proposals to try to, if not totally ban them, make sure that they ... are fully justified and debated and ventilated, that the activities are conducted in the light of day rather than in the middle of the night and the next day a bill appears on everybody's desk and we vote up or down without having seen it.