I had a veteran in my office this morning, a Purple Heart veteran, by the way, who had a 9:30 appointment.

ACLI thanks Senators Kohl, Bingaman and Isakson for their bi-partisan sponsorship of S. 2832, the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act.

I want to commend you on the talk about open space and green space and reforestation.

I really appreciate what past administrations have done to use either the right to abstain or the right to veto resolutions.

Hopefully, this may be the opportunity that the U.N. can be strong in forging a meaningful cease fire.

What's going on in Darfur is unacceptable, and we need to get that fully operational and working.

I will not make an opening statement, but I do have a couple of--well, one question and one point to make.

Because there are times that States' self-interest actually can use the law to its advantage to not do something because the victim is downstream getting penalized.

Because of Ms. Browner's waiver with the developer, the developer then took that site, redeveloped it.

For the first time in 37 years, Congress actually got to the point we could ban asbestos.

I would just encourage you, as you find ways to mitigate problems, find ways to seek solutions, to reduce pollution, that you recognize the tremendous difference of soil erosion, sediment from State to State, from region to region.