Every child deserves the opportunity to obtain a quality education in the best environment possible and to be given the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

We must do everything we can to increase opportunities available to women and girls, especially in countries that are struggling to achieve peace and democracy.

Is that not the second lowest uninsured population in the United States?

At its fundamental, ACA is about coverage, and Massachusetts is demonstrating it.

We are trying to save people's lives. We are trying to make sure that we keep people healthy.

Wouldn't it be fair to say the goal here for the ACA, the Affordable Health Care Act, known as ObamaCare, was never to have a perfect Website, it was to get people enrolled. Website is a method, not an end.

The gentleman mentioned the Affordable Care Act, and you mentioned a phone and a pen. I would encourage all Americans to use their phone and to use their pen to let the other parts of our government know where you stand and know that you…

In fact, to the contrary, they have said flatly they have no interest in doing anything beyond New START.

I think anybody--a reasonable person would agree that before we agree to negotiate further reductions, the party should be in compliance with existing treaties.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Mr. Kelly. Mr. Speaker, we have a problem. We have an inactive Senate with Harry Reid at the helm as the majority leader. Someone on the Senate side seems to have hit the pause button, and it has…

When they take their own lives, these deaths diminish us as a whole.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of Autism Awareness Month. April is Autism Awareness Month, and today, April 2, is Autism Awareness Day. Autism is serious. It does not discriminate. People in all racial, socioeconomic, and ethnic…

Mental health issues are just as serious as visible physical wounds, in my opinion.

I have often heard Vladimir Putin characterized as being more tactical than he is strategic.

I urge you to pass H.R. 3717. I am not a politician, I am not a legislator, but I am someone who has spent her life in the trenches personally and now professionally.

Settlement funds are not appropriations, nor are they hand-outs.

I think it is wise for Congress to check on their progress now.

The only way such an outrageous breach of fiduciary duty could occur... is for there to be an institutionalized culture that does not understand and take seriously this reality.