the act of rape involves an assault to human dignity and it is not reducible just to numbers.
This is one of the most effective committees in the House, and in my 14 years on this subcommittee, it can also be one of the most bipartisa...
Both Democrats and Republicans have supported laws to protect the health, environment, financial security, and safety of the American people...
I am excited about the opportunity to serve in the 112th Congress as the ranking member of this esteemed committee.
The President's new Executive order on improving regulation and regulatory review is an excellent starting point.
We must recognize, however, how important regulations are to our national welfare.
we don't believe in overregulation and we don't believe that regulations should be burdensome, especially right now with unemployment still ...
So President Obama and the Administration could not in and of themselves change the jurisdiction of OIRA--only Congress could do that, right...
Are you aware that EPA's proposed rule would potentially save thousands of lives per year and protect children from neurotoxins because the ...
the total number of rules in the first 2 years of the Obama Administration is comparable to the number of rules in the last 2 years of the B...
the EPA has finalized or proposed fewer Clean Air Act rules over the last 21 months than in the first 2 years of either President George W. ...
What's with all the political games everybody's playing?
What's with all the political games that everybody's playing?
One of the saddest moments of my Senate career was learning that the observation that you're entitled to your own facts but not your own opi...
We are in a deep, deep hole working in a town where the political debate, in my view, is almost utterly unmoored from the facts.
If we don't deal with the deficit and the debt problem the capital markets are going to decide that question for us, and all of these progra...
part of our job was to make sure we're creating more opportunity, not less, for our kids and our grandkids.
I think the dual track has a lot to do with it.