I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.