It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the PUBLIC at a TIME of an ELECTION.

We ACTUALLY have the tools in the LIFE sciences to achieve anything that you have the AUDACITY to envision. I just HOPE to LIVE long enough not to die.

On JANUARY 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to OFFER a prescription drug benefit, and for the FIRST time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of DISEASE.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - TIMES more COMPLICATED today than we APPRECIATED them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

For too LONG, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to DRIVE to WORK, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

Humans have OBVIOUSLY contributed a GREAT DEAL of CARBON to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up.

It is important to REMEMBER that all BUSINESS has an impact on the lives of REAL PEOPLE.

Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is ALSO a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are SOMEHOW different - for instance, many of them are very serious PEOPLE or people who are themselves under some SORT of strain.

I guess this SONG isn't about ANYTHING necessarily SAD, but it MAKES me sad just because it makes me THINK about how inaccessible the past is, but it's called 'Boy Child' by Scott Walker.

I've been really humbled by other WOMEN who've REACHED out to me across the country. Not just women who are running for Congress and FEDERAL office, but elementary school students running for STUDENT council or HIGH school students who are their class presidents.