Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

I need physics more than friends.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.