Not one word in this bill mandates that the equipment be put to use.... But there is no mandate that they be open. No mandate that they pump gas. No mandate to do anything.

No one heard of Bill Clinton before he declared he was going to run.

Brown does not mandate integrated schools. Instead, Brown mandates no segregated schools. Segregation may be chosen by residential patterns.

We've been to others, but they're just not as deep or spiritual as the one at Freed-Hardeman.

The contentious matter of whether or not to begin drilling in Alaska has no place in a bill that funds the Department of Defense. The needs of our troops serving in combat should never be subject to such cynical politics.

Any one mandate can stand on its own as being really appealing and sensible, and this is no different. But we've had 26 mandates passed in the past five years. Adding it all up, we could be adding 13 to 26 percent to the cost of health care, and this at a time when we're trying to figure out how we can control costs.