Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

John Goodman, an adviser to Senator McCain, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, although the government will be the payer of last resort. Well, if that’s his definition of health insurance, it’s not the kind Americans want or need.

Clearly, there are major differences between the economic policies of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. Mr. McCain wants more tax cuts for the rich; Mr. Obama wants tax cuts for the poor and middle class. The two men also disagree on health care, energy and many other topics.

McCain and Obama want to change the bottom-line effects of the tax code. Here's a dollars-and-cents breakdown of what their plans could mean for you.

The overpayments were among several deficiencies found in work force practices at the Health and Human Services Commission, which oversees four state agencies in a system that employs 50,000 workers with a payroll of $2.2 billion.

Fort Bend County Commissioner James Patterson recalled recently that when he talked about the need for public transportation after being elected in 1999, "I almost got run out of town." Now, he said, commuter buses carry 13,000 passengers a day between Sugar Land and the Galleria or Greenway Plaza, twice the number just two years ago.