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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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