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.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual to own a handgun.