One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.