Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market and we don't know frankly how it would work under every scenario.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart from a clean environment to true equality for women from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges in turn answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice theory humanities. And nowadays music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Unfortunately the elimination of incentives such as parole good time credits and funding for college courses means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy education treatment and other development programs.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom and we're winning.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding insurance coverage and education reform.

Reforming public education cutting property taxes fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

Each year over 2 500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.