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.

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

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

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

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

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

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