While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to make our country more energy independent.

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

[I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.