There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

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.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

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.

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