I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

A Renaissance pope, they were not overly concerned with their religion - rather more concerned with politics and power. At that time, they still ruled the world.

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.