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.

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

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.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.