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.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

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

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

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

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.