Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded