I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.