The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

We all realize we will have to introduce amendments to the current legislation in the country,

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

It's a piece of legislation which is packed away in a little box and left on a shelf.