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.

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

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.

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

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.

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

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