The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should provide resources as needed, and it should make it clear to the authorities in Belgrade that inaction does have repercussions on bilateral relations.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.