We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

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

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

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

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.