For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.