President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.