Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.
Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.