At a minimum, the presumption should be that our existing civilian and military legal systems are the proper venues for ...
I want to state for the record that I disagree fundamentally with an amendment that became part of the Department of Def...
I remain concerned that the military commission process is so discredited that it may not be possible to fix it.
Attempts to resume military commission trials would perpetuate the harmful symbolism of Guantanamo, undermining our curr...
After all the money that we have spent to save the banks, it is irresponsible for Congress to let this vicious cycle con...
It should be consisted of only elected Representatives, and the fact that as a practical matter you can't elect people q...
I live in Alexandria and there was a vacancy in the House of Delegates in Alexandria and Governor Kaine called an electi...
Just a few years ago, Congress acted in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion and passed the Continuity and Representativ...
I have no doubt that the bond of the spirit of the American people will ensure that democracy prevails even in the most ...
Without an elected House, the entire Federal Government could be run, laws could be written, without a single branch rep...
James Madison used the strongest of terms when stating the House must be composed of only those elected by the people.
I think that Mr. Baird's proposal and my own proposal will go a long way to making this country less vulnerable as it st...
A study conducted by The Elections Center, a nonpartisan organization representing the Nation's election officials, has ...
Legislation passed by Mr. Sensenbrenner was also enacted to require States to hold special House elections when extraord...
I think the message was given when the House voted down the Baird amendment by a vote of 63 yes to 353 no, that the Hous...
But what we worry about is the extraordinary circumstance where we fear there will be no House or no Senate...
House Joint Resolution 53 would solve all of these constitutional problems by providing that each person who is elected ...
I would just suggest that having an alternate for a House and Senate Member would provide... for an elected Representati...