It's important to show our victories but also our defeat of the mean-spirited anti-gay legislation being put forward by the opposition. It's really an attack on children and families.

This is an exciting time in our growing civil rights movement for marriage equality. The Marriage Equality Matters campaign demonstrates the power of engaging the public and showing them the reality of marriage equality, rather than right-wing rhetoric and scare tactics. When it comes to opening hearts and minds to fairness and reaching the diverse communities who make up our American landscape seeing is, in fact, believing.

This is legislation that consumers deserve if we are to help them and our economy defeat the growing menace of identity theft.

Ultimately it's not serious in any way as proposed legislation, but it's very serious with regard to what the committee's real alternatives are, ... The chairman is actively working to make sure that it's ANWR -- and (the Arctic refuge) alone.

The introduction of this legislation has been delayed for a few years. We are going to try to push this forward.

I don't think anyone — even the drafters (of the legislation) or folks at the State House — looked at the fact this change eliminated the (toll-evasion) fine. I don't think the dots ever got connected.