 Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. |
| Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people. |
| If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. |
| In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. |
| Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. |
| But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders. |
| We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. |
| The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. |
| The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. |
| What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. |
| I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. |
| They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. |
| President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. |
| Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. |
| Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. |
| The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country. |
| I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. |
| By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America! |
| Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses. |
| Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. |
