We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.