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Global Warming Is Real. It Is Happening Today. It Is Being Charted By Our Satellites. It Is Being Charted By Our Scientists. It Is Being Charted By Those Of Us In This Body, And I Think The Real Key Is If We Are Ready To Admit That Fact And Take The Action To Make The Necessary Conversion.

It Is My Hope That The Number Of Stem Cell Lines Available For Federally-funded Research Will Be Expanded So That The Government Can Continue To Participate In This Vital Research And Provide Hope To The Millions Of Americans With Diseases That Might Be Cured.

We Have A Chance To Wind Down And Expedite The Removal Of 96 Percent Of The World's Nuclear Weapons. What An Achievement It Would Be, If At The End Of The Next Administration, We Could Say That The Nuclear Arsenals Of Both Russia And The United States Had Been Reduced To The Barest Minimums.

I Have Very Deep Concern About The Legacy Of The Rehnquist Court And Its Efforts To Restrict Congressional Authority To Enact Legislation By Adopting A Very Narrow View Of Several Provisions Of The Constitution, Including The Commerce Clause And The 14th Amendment. This Trend, I Believe, If Continued, Would Restrict And Could Even Prevent The Congress From Addressing Major Environmental And Social Issues Of The Future.

While The Distance Between The United States And Iraq Is Great, Saddam Hussein's Ability To Use His Chemical And Biological Weapons Against Us Is Not Constrained By Geography - It Can Be Accomplished In A Number Of Different Ways - Which Is What Makes This Threat So Real And Persuasive.