The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

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

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

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

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

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