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

With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

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.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

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.

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.