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.

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.

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

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Americans don't want to hear the answers are privileged and off limits or they can't be provided in public or it would be inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know. We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.