I would simply ask that when this does hit your desk, and it will be there the day you are sworn in, that you give immediate attention to that and work very closely with the Department of Interior to let us see if we cannot provide some…

we have always had a bipartisan committee that is going to get even stronger as we go through the final implementation of the current Farm Bill

Yes. VA and DoD are on target to meet the September 30, 2009, 'full interoperability' target mandated by the FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, Section 1635.

I appreciate your consideration of H.R. 3577 and ask for your support.

This small measure will provide invaluable relief for numerous military spouses who regularly uproot their entire lives to accommodate the needs of our Armed Forces.

We should not punish these model citizens by taking away their right to vote or stripping them of tax residency.

AMVETS strongly supports H.R. 1182 introduced by Congressman Carter.

Would it be a strict construction kind of analysis, or would it be by chance the acknowledgment that the Constitution is a living and breathing document?

the language in the Treasury proposal could be read to force--to force--clearinghouses to treat transactions as fungible, which could have a negative systemic risk implication.

it seems that Treasury intended to give clearinghouses the ability to allow end-users to move swaps transactions from one clearinghouse to another.

So, from my perspective, these are all lessons coming out of the failure of those institutions, and, hence, the need for regulators to have clear authority to require changes when necessary in the conduct of a business that is threatening…

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

But when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the President of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

Consumers may still opt to arbitrate a dispute with a company. But only when that consumer determines that it is the appropriate forum at the time the conflict arises and not before.

In the 110th Congress I introduced the Arbitration Fairness Act, a bill that would prevent all forced pre-dispute arbitration clauses.