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.

There is no free market in oil.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

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