While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.

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.

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

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.

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

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.