The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

As we get closer to the end of this Congress we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq affordable health care a sensible energy policy quality education for our children retirement security and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs promote the development of safe effective medicines and guarantee patient rights.

This syndrome SARS is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause cure the sick and stop its spread.

Well you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't but it needs to be.