Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
I beat a brain tumor.
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
