My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.