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.

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

I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

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

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

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

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