There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

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.

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.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.