I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.