Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

He's going to kill me. They'll find me lying on the floor, my heart burt wide open, too full of him to stay in my chest.

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

When you ask women what's the one thing they wish they had more of, they always say time.

Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

We are made strong by what we overcome.

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.