This health crisis has repercussions that are reverberating far beyond the sick rooms and the hospitals where its victims lie dying. It threatens to destabilize entire societies.

This health crisis has repercussions that are reverberating far beyond the sick rooms and the hospitals where its victims lie dying, ... It threatens to destabilize entire societies.

We are not the CIA, we are not the FBI, we are not the White House, we are not the Defense Department. We are the United States Congress; we have our role. And we can't give up that role during a national-security crisis.

It's a gated community, it's private property, it's private streets. The association just didn't want the media here.

We ... need the president to live up to his promises and provide full funding to our global HIV/AIDS initiative if we are to tackle not only Vietnam but India, Russia and China. That means that we need nothing less than $3.6 billion this year.

Secretary of State Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem-economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women, children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe could lead to such an outcome.