Sen. Rita Days and I were committed to maintaining a safe and friendly emissions program even though the effort was to decentralize it. Decentralize did not mean the program was going away; it?s a federal mandate. Our six amendments protect the public and make the often inconvenient process of emissions testing as painless as possible.

I don't want the air to get dirtier than it already is. And by excluding the older cars that have worse emissions, then we seem to be going backward.

It looks like a major leap in reclaiming good sense, but I don't know that.

My impression from what has happened in other states is that student-loan costs have definitely gone up.

Lifting the contribution limits, I just can't do that. It's a pretty deeply held belief of mine.

We are kind of in la-la land here. What are we doing here?

It's sad that they're focusing on what would only lead women to the back alley when they should be focusing on preventing unwanted pregnancies.