If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one.

As the president has said, if the United Nations will not disarm Saddam Hussein, it will be another international organization, a coalition of the willing that will be made up of numerous nations that will disarm Saddam Hussein.

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.