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.

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.

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

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

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.

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.