The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.