In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.