Because Minnesotans lost their homes, they lost their savings, they lost their jobs, and millions of Americans did this because of these guys.

We have used our criminal justice system as a substitute for a well-functioning mental health system.

I just do not want this to stop with S&P, with the one agency.

I just want to ask you for your support, as we go forward, in making sure that our criminal justice system is not just wasting money, but wasting lives.

maybe it is time we can go to a veterans court

The United States has 5 percent of the world's population, 25 percent of the prison population.

I think that Americans have the right to know to the extent that it is not harmful, obviously, what surveillance is like.

I have been fighting to get the--I had actually a bipartisan piece in the Senate side of what is now called Dodd-Frank, the Wall Street reform bill, to fix this.

I am very concerned about the telecommunications industry consolidating, and I am specifically concerned about Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable.

I think that's something that we need to be talking a lot about here on this committee.

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleagues, Congresswoman Kristi Noem and Congresswoman Ann Wagner, for their leadership here tonight. Nearly a year ago, Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria kidnapped more than 200 teenage girls with the…

What this would do is create a competitive grant program to recruit and train high caliber principals.

Early childhood, to me, seems to be sort of the best answer to that for kindergarten and first grade teachers.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding the time and for his consistent, continuous leadership on this issue. Mr. Speaker, as a father and grandfather, I find it difficult to imagine anything more terrifying than a loved one…

Mr. Speaker, on the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I stand with my colleagues in defense of innocent human life. My wife and I were blessed with seven beautiful children, each with their own unique gifts. Since Roe v. Wade, more than 56…

it's about making sure that the ACA works as well as possible for people in my State and our Nation, and it really has helped a lot of people.

the reason we put it at 30 and the reason that the tradeoffs are such that 40 makes so much less sense is because, as the CBO scored it and looked at it, this would take insurance away from 500,000, and up to a million.

we absolutely need to fix what's not working about the law. What we shouldn't try to do is get rid of it.