Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.