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.

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

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.

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

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

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

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