A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.