It remains unconscionable that Americans, let alone in the developed world, lack universal health care as a right of citizenship.

Health insurance coverage for all must be one of our first priorities.

Will you work with those of us who think that, in fact, Americans should be able to purchase safe, FDA-approved medicine from other countries where the prices are substantially lower than they are in the United States?

one of my real frustrations with the Bush administration, well before the immediate financial crisis, is their refusal to address the reality that even before the crisis, the middle class in this country was in serious decline.

we are the only major country on earth without a national health care program.

we have the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of childhood poverty.

Say a word about income and wealth and equality. Can you have a sustainable strong economy when so few have so much and so many have so little?

Do you think, by the way, and I know that is out of the jurisdiction of this committee and maybe it is in the Health and Education Committee, that we might want to take a look at reconfiguring how we determine real unemployment in America?

Clearly, that was not the original intention. The original intention was not to have dozens of locations around this Country where we are storing very lethal waste with a half-life of thousands of years.

Fair enough. But it is our business, $20 billion or $10 billion is a heck of a lot of money.

What was the fine that Entergy paid for this mishap? How many millions of dollars was that?

I do know that we are grossly underestimating the significance of energy efficiency and renewable energy as we attempt to deal with the energy crisis that we currently face.