Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.
Not all research is going to be turned into some new innovation, but there are some things that can be and that haven't been, and I think the federal government has a proper role to play in doing that.
Innovation really is the life blood of our American economy... looking back at the stories of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers, you look at emergence to technology innovation and what it has done for our economy. We need to continue that.
You can be a great researcher, and you can think you have great ideas, but until you're forced to talk to a potential customer, you never really know.
It is in our national interest for Congress to act on immigration reform in a comprehensive manner.
I see incredible opportunities for transportation to benefit from rapidly advancing automation, connectivity, and information technologies.
We need to find innovative ways to dramatically ease congestion, improve personal mobility, and cut energy use.
Driverless cars are coming to your street - the only question is, 'When?'
The promise of autonomous vehicles is great.
While so many Americans are still struggling to find good jobs, and our manufacturing sector continues to need a boost, it is only common sense to ensure that taxpayer dollars put Americans to work rather than those outside our borders.
U.S. trade policy has been a disaster for American workers.
