[Immigration] today is doing less work-site enforcement than even the Clinton administration did, and that is quite a dubious distinction,

That's your tax dollars at work,

A one-sentence fax that came out across the wire - I don't think that's adequate. I think we need, and deserve, better representation and I'm a little bit disappointed.

Within seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, ... federal taxpayers will have spent 50 percent more than the combined annual budgets of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

There were 5,000 fewer native born American citizens employed in 2004 than were employed in 2000, ... In contrast there was an increase of 2.3 million foreign born holding jobs during the same time period. Putting it another way, there was a net increase of 1.7 million total number of adults working in the United States from 2000 to 2004. All of that increase went to foreign born workers.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.