In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

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.

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

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

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

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.