An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem-cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

In particular, they have expressed concern about legal challenges to the distribution of stem-cell grants under California's Proposition 71. This issue needs to be reviewed thoughtfully and prudently.

I talk about it. It's a concern to a lot of people.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.

Our concern is that the budget terminates funding research into oil and gas. That's a mistake. There are important benefits to derive from it.