The best way to celebrate Social Security's birthday would be to enact legislation that ensures Americans' hard-earned contributions to Social Security will be dedicated solely to paying Social Security benefits and not used to fund other programs,

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday. I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Few Americans are clamoring for legislation that would allow mega-mergers among the nation's largest financial institutions.

Few Americans are clamoring for legislation that would allow mega-mergers among the nation's largest financial institutions,

She loves Oprah, and she's going to be in Chicago for her birthday anyway. What better way to continue to celebrate.

[When U.S. congressman Jeff Flake visited Havana recently, promoting legislation to let Americans travel freely to Cuba, Fidel Castro had his top aides meet with Flake to ask whether the measure could really pass.] Yes, ... and tell Castro that if he doesn't behave, we're going to bring down the whole darn embargo!