United States Senate

Nominations of Julius Genachowski to be commissioner and chairman and Robert M. McDowell to be commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission

SAFE Port Act reauthorization

Current energy security challenges

Preserving integrity, preventing overpayments, and eliminating fraud in the unemployment insurance system

Transportation infrastructure

Indian governments and the tax code

Energy efficiency standards

President's fiscal year 2010 health care proposals

The role of long-term care in health reform

International aspects of a carbon cap and trade program

The middle income tax relief question

Best practices in tax administration

The impact of certain governmental contractor liability proposals on environmental laws

Criminal prosecution as a deterrent to health care fraud

Prohibiting obscene animal crush videos in the wake of United States v. Stevens

Examining solutions to cope with the rise in home heating oil prices

Rising violent crime in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Barriers to justice

Improving high school graduation rates and postsecondary success in Alaska and nationwide

Surgeons for sale

U.S. interrogation policy and Executive Order 13440

New strategies for combating violent crime

The president's request to extend the service of director Robert Mueller of the FBI unit

Protecting national security and civil liberties