Ed Markey

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.