Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.