While President Bush's Tax Give-aways For The

[a]s We Celebrate 75 Years Of The Minimum Wage, We Must Also Recognize That It Is No Longer Achieving Its Potential Impact In Our Economy Or For America's Working Families. Every American Deserves The Chance To Build A Better Life For His Or Her Family - And Raising The Minimum Wage Will Provide That Opportunity.

There's No One Silver Bullet, But Money Really Is The Root Of All Evil. The Single Biggest Problem Is How Much More Money Is Flooding Into Politics These Days. It Not Only Tends To Enable A More Extreme Candidate To Get Elected, But Because So Much Money Is Required To Bankroll A Campaign, Everyone Spends All Their Free Time Fundraising Instead Of Reaching Across The Aisle.

I Don't Know If There's Any Secret Recipe. Just A Lot Of Hard Work. Pay Attention To Your Constituents. I Always Had A Great Iowa Staff That Did All My Great Constituent Service Work. And I Found That People Would Forgive Me For A Lot Of My "liberal Sins" Because I Paid Attention To The Home Front.

There Is No Such Thing As A Pro-nuclear Environmentalist.

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.