Norm Coleman
Norm Coleman
Norman Bertram "Norm" Coleman, Jr.,is an American lobbyist, lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 2003 until 2009. Coleman was elected in 2002 and served in the 108th, 109th, and 110th Congresses. Before becoming a Senator, he was Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Previously a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Coleman became a Republican in 1996...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 August 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.
Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement
A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.
We completed two pieces of legislation in the highway and energy bill,
We have found disturbing evidence that one of the U.N. oil monitors -- the individuals hired by the U.N. to inspect the oil exports from Iraq under the OFF Program -- took a bribe.
While today's news is a hit for our Twin Cities community, I still have the expectation that the Pentagon will uphold its commitment to keep the impact to Minnesota to a minimum and establish a meaningful, follow-on mission for the Air Guard's 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth,
to determine the propriety of referring the matter to the Department of Justice .
There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.
Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.
We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee,
There is a moment of opportunity (with the world summit next week), and that moment ... has to be seized. ... If not, there will be a further undermining of support (for the UN) in the US Congress,
There is an election that will be held on November 5, and I'm going to say this: It's just an election, ... My wife and I have lost two children. I know and we know what real loss is, and everything else is very relative after that.
to get a better feel for her intellectual capacity and judicial philosophy, core competence issues.