As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.