The debate over prescription drug coverage comes down to a question of values, ... President Bush and congressional Republicans have continually chosen to place a greater value on tax cuts for the wealthy than for prescription drugs for seniors.

The Republican Medicare drug plan is complicated and confusing because Republicans wrote it to meet the needs of drug companies and private insurers, not the needs of Medicare beneficiaries.

Republicans have been providing solutions and ideas since the immediate aftermath of the disaster, and have implored Democrats to join us and to focus on getting aid to those in need,'' said Ben Porritt, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

We also welcome the debate over conservative values,