Follow The Trend Lines, Not The Headlines.

If You Look At What's Happened To The Stock Market, If You Look At What's Happened To Housing Values, If You Look At What's Happened To Bank Loan Portfolios Because The Value Of Their Other Assets That They've Already Issued Loans Against Were Going Down, There Was A Pretty Good Argument For Trying To Pass Something At About This Level Of Investment With The Divisions As They Were - Unemployment, Food Stamps, And Tax Cuts, Aid To Education And Healthcare, And Job Creation.

One Way Or The Other, We Are Determined To Deny Iraq The Capacity To Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Missiles To Deliver Them. That Is Our Bottom Line.

It's The Economy, Stupid.

When Galileo Discovered He Could Use The Tools Of Mathematics And Mechanics To Understand The Motion Of Celestial Bodies, He Felt, In The Words Of One Imminent Researcher, That He Had Learned The Language In Which God Recreated The Universe. Today We Are Learning The Language In Which God Created Life. We Are Gaining Ever More Awe For The Complexity, The Beauty, The Wonder Of God's Most Devine And Sacred Gift.

I Want The Ability To Monitor High-tech Communications Among Far-flung Terrorists. I Want To Be Able To Have Our People Learn Their Plans Before They Strike. That's The Key.