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The Administration’s focus today on tax cuts that are not due to expire for another two years shows again how they are out of touch with Americans' daily struggle to deal with the consequences of the President’s failed economic program – anemic job growth, decreasing household incomes, exploding costs of gas, food, health care and college, record foreclosure rates, and rising poverty.
Our intelligence community has the tools it needs to keep America safe, and we are absolutely committed to ensuring that this remains the case.
For the first six years of the 21st Century, President Bush and Republican Congresses relied on a 20th Century energy policy that failed to reduce America’s energy independence or address rising gas prices.
Today the House overwhelmingly rejected the President’s misguided veto of the Farm Bill.
The cost of gas has now climbed to $3.79 per gallon, and oil has hit a record of $129 per barrel.
Senator Kennedy is a giant in the Senate, a wonderful public servant, and a great American.
I understand the differences of opinion on the war in Iraq.
It is absolutely inconceivable that, with gas prices climbing to $3.72 today, President Bush continues to oppose the bipartisan effort in Congress to give American consumers some relief from those high prices by temporarily suspending deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).