This plan must begin today. A plan I'm confident will save or create at least 3 million jobs over the next few years.

For every day we wait and point fingers or drag our feet, more Americans will lose their jobs, and our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that at some point we may not be able to reverse.

If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years. The unemployment rate could reach double digits.

Any health care reform plan must make sure every American has preventative care that prevents disease and disability.

Studies have shown that for every $1 spent on prevention we could net a return of $5.60 in health care costs.

America cannot afford more of the same when it comes to health care in this country.

It is unacceptable that in a nation of approximately 300 million people, nearly one in six Americans don't have health insurance.

By some measures, nearly one third of the care Americans receive is at best inadequate, and at worst harmful.

update the way we get our electricity by starting to build a new Smart Grid that will save us money, protect our power sources from blackout or attack, and deliver clean, alternative forms of energy to every corner of our nation.

Perhaps more than anyone else, the Native American community faces huge challenges that have been ignored by Washington for too long. It is time to empower Native Americans in the development of the national policy agenda.

quickly moving to establish a national greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal that contributes to global climate stabilization is critically important.