Under Current Federal Policy On Human Embryonic

Incivility Is A Symptom, Not The Disease. We've Always Had Partisan Conflict In Congress, And We Always Will. Yet When I Worked For A Year (1970-71) On The Staff Of Sen. Ed Muskie Of Maine, This Was A Different Place, More Collegial, More Sensitive To Data, More Concerned About All Of The American People. I Think Because The For-profit Media Prizes Conflict Above Cooperation And Sound Bites Above Analysis, Politicians Have Learned To Adapt To Those Tendencies. Consequently, Our Public Debates Are Dumbed Down As Our Problems Grow More Complex.

What Our Republican Friends Are Doing, If We Look At What They Do And Not What They Say, They Have Decided That The Most Important Thing In This Country Is To Increase Payments For Interest On The National Debt.

They Don't Have Special Rights Because We Have Civil Rights Laws That Protect Them. The Laws Work Both Ways.

I Think We Have A Moral Obligation To Our Children That Can Be Easily Summarized: Number One, Protect Them From Harm.

I Support Exemptions From The Estate Tax To Ensure That When Maine Farm Owners Die, Their Families Will Be Able To Continue To Farm The Land That They Have Protected And Lived On, Often For Generations.