As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

I am younger each year at the first snow.

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.