For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

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.

Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.

More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.