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.
The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury’s special qualities.
I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.
But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!
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.
I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
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.
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
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.
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.
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.
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.
They don’t have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
We all experience shame, a product of the moments in our past that make us frightened to live our lives to the full in the present. It hangs around our necks, making us feel less than the person next to us, but if we can drag it out into the open and see what it is and see how we all share in this human experience, maybe we can see that we’re not so bad after all.
Winter forms our character and brings out our best.