Stem Cell Research Holds Out The Promise

They Don't Have Special Rights Because We Have Civil Rights Laws That Protect Them. The Laws Work Both Ways.

To Do What We Are Doing In This Budget To Our Children, Cutting Their Health Care Funds, Decreasing Opportunity, Simply So We Can Pay For Tax Cuts And A War In Iraq Is Beyond Belief, And We Need To Reverse It

I Support Exemptions From The Estate Tax To Ensure That When Maine Farm Owners Die, Their Families Will Be Able To Continue To Farm The Land That They Have Protected And Lived On, Often For Generations.

The Argument On The Other Side Of Special Rights Is Completely Bogus. It's Bogus Because You Could Make Exactly The Same Claim About Racial Or Ethnic Or Religious Minorities.

Incivility Is A Symptom, Not The Disease. We've Always Had Partisan Conflict In Congress, And We Always Will. Yet When I Worked For A Year (1970-71) On The Staff Of Sen. Ed Muskie Of Maine, This Was A Different Place, More Collegial, More Sensitive To Data, More Concerned About All Of The American People. I Think Because The For-profit Media Prizes Conflict Above Cooperation And Sound Bites Above Analysis, Politicians Have Learned To Adapt To Those Tendencies. Consequently, Our Public Debates Are Dumbed Down As Our Problems Grow More Complex.