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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.