Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.
Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.
A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.
When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.