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

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

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

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.

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.