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

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

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.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.