The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

Cigars are no safe alternative act.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.