Popularity: 3
Vote:   | Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | In many regards, what is most notable about the President's budget is not what is in the plan, but what has been left out. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Social Security was intended to be a guarantee to American workers: it will be there, and it will be there for everyone. We have kept that promise for 70 years, and we can continue to do so if we take time once again to make thoughtful, bipartisan adjustments to the system. It is a pact worth keeping. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | We are indebted to the men and women serving in our armed forces for their dedicated and unselfish service to our country. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We cannot overstate the sacrifice our military personnel - all volunteers - are making to ensure the security of their fellow Americans. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis. |