When Speaker Nancy Pelosi boldly proclaimed this month that this would be a Congress that remembers the children, I couldn’t help but think that this smart, savvy grandmother of 6, who now wields the most powerful gavel in the world, was forgetting someone.
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On Sunday, I spoke before tens of thousands who gathered in New York City's Central Park, united in their compassion and concern, to call for an immediate end to the genocide in Darfur. This rally, one of three dozen held worldwide, was an important and needed effort to help turn the world's collective attention to the plight of the people of Darfur
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On Wednesday, I conducted a hearing to examine China's human-rights record. Over the years, I have held more than 25 hearings on human-rights abuses in China and although some economic progress has been made, the human-rights situation remains abysmal.
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Just over two years ago, Congress passed the new Medicare plan that enabled beneficiaries to take control of their prescription drug benefit by providing them with greater flexibility and more choices with the goal of creating competition among plan providers.
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American people are deeply troubled to see U.S. technology and know-how used by repressive regimes in China and elsewhere in the world to cruelly exploit and abuse the citizens of those countries. While the Internet has opened up commercial opportunities and provided people all over the world with access to vast amounts of information, in China it has also become a malicious tool -- a cyber-sledgehammer of repression in the hands of the government.
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Despite efforts by some to quell reality, one of the best-kept secrets in medicine today is that umbilical-cord-blood stem cells and adult stem cells are curing people from terrible conditions and diseases.
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The House of Representatives met in an extraordinary session on Sunday because a much-loved disabled woman in Florida has been ordered to die by starvation and dehydration. We met because Terri Schiavo's family, including her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, refuse to allow their precious daughter -- who is not in a coma or terminally ill or in a persistent vegetative state -- to be killed by starving her to death.
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