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 key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

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.

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.

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.

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.