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Despite The Increase In World Attention Toward Sudan In The Past Months, The Genocide In Darfur Has Continued Without Any Serious Attempt By The Sudanese Government To Do What Governments Primarily Exist To Do, Protect Their Citizens.

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.

Under Current Federal Policy On Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Only Those Stem Cell Lines Derived Before August 9, 2001 Are Eligible For Federally Funded Research.

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.

If The Parties Get Too Close Together They Lose Their Identities, If They Get Too Far Apart You're Not Going To Get A Whole Lot Done Because You Almost Always Need To Have Some Folks On The Other Side Of The Aisle To Accomplish Anything.