The President Must Stop Gambling

The President Must Stop Gambling With Taxpayers' Money And Get The Country Back On The Path Of Fiscal Sanity.

When I First Arrived To Congress In 1975, I Would Spend Several Hours Every Week With Republicans - Having Lunch, Drinking A Beer. But By The Time I Left Last Year, That Was A Rarity. Every Moment Of Free Time Is Eaten Up By Fundraising. And The Advent Of All These Groups That Can Threaten Passage Of This Or That With An Avalanche Of Money Or A Primary Opponent Has Poisoned Our Politics.

The Burning Issue Of Our Time Is The Growing Inequality In Income And Wealth In Our Country, And It's Got To Be Addressed. We've Got To Stop It. It's Eroding Our Politics. It's Separating Our Society Into The Haves And The Have-nots. It's Condemning A Whole Younger Set Of Our Population To Not Be Able To Enter The Middle Class. And, It Hits Hardest In The Prairie Areas Of The United States, Our Small Towns And Communities, Where The Jobs Just Aren't Available And The Incomes Are Low.

The Planes Were Hijacked, The Buildings Fell, And Thousands Of Lives Were Lost Nearly A Thousand Miles From Here. But The Attacks On The World Trade Center And The Pentagon Were An Attack On The Heart Of America. And Standing Here In The Heartland Of America, We Say In One Voice We Will Not Give In To Terrorists; We Will Not Rest Until They Are Found And Defeated; We Will Win This Struggle Not For Glory, Nor Wealth, Nor Power, But For Justice, For Freedom, And For Peace; So Help Us God.

Whereas Iraq Has Consistently Breached Its Cease-fire Agreement Between Iraq And The United States, Entered Into On March 3, 1991, By Failing To Dismantle Its Weapons Of Mass Destruction Program, And Refusing To Permit Monitoring And Verification By United Nations Inspections; Whereas Iraq Has Developed Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Including Chemical And Biological Capabilities, And Has Made Positive Progress Toward Developing Nuclear Weapons Capabilities