The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

Until the water is pumped out and until we can test the sludge and everything, we really don't know what the livability aspects are going to be, ... And that is probably going to be another two months just to get the water out of New Orleans.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.