Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.