Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.