While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.