Another important part of this bill will be the periodic report it requires on the progress our forces are making in Iraq,

This bill has one motivation -- payback by the Bush administration and the Republican leadership of the Congress to the powerful special interest of the National Rifle Association.

The news on the Republican Medicare bill gets better and better for drug company profits and HMOs, and worse and worse for seniors and the Medicare program,

The House bill has a provision which would effectively dismantle Medicare.