US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

Press release/summary for The 2007 Farm Bill and Beyond

Our military commitments demand substantial increases in defense spending.

Lost in the debate over SCHIP reauthorization is the effect that creating an open-ended entitlement will have on states' incentives to spend money that may leave poor states behind.

The thorny issue of immigration may yet prove to be a winner for President George W. Bush.

One would think that lawmakers might want to refrain from nakedly self-centered activities for the sake of Americans' security. Wrong.

Problems with procurement, corruption, and intellectual property threaten new and innovative malaria treatments.

Congress should take action to move Medicare toward a sound, long-term financial footing; to eliminateabuses in Medicaid payments; and to change the tax treatment of health insurance.