This coming weekend, I will have the opportunity and the honor to attend Penn State University's 11th Annual Equine Science Showcase and Quarter Horse Sale. As a land-grant university, horses of various breeds have always been a part of…

Despite blocked attempts to fully repeal the so-called Affordable Care Act, this law is doomed to collapse under the weight of its own flawed design. Just last week, Democratic Senator Max Baucus of Montana, a key architect of the…

Today is a very important day to us. Monday, April 15, was tax day. Our Tax Code is way too big, way too complicated, way too confusing, and way too costly. Americans spend a combined 6.7 billion hours on their taxes every year, and they…

In the debate over the terrible acts of violence that have been committed upon innocent men, women, and children, there is frequently one common issue, that of mental health. As we all know, the profiles of the perpetrators in many of the…

100 years ago, Congress passed the 1914 Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriations Act, which established a separate department within the Library of Congress to serve the legislative and resource needs of the United States…

I thank the gentleman, and thank you for holding this this evening, because it's really important that we understand exactly what's going on with coal. When America was looking for energy, they went to coal. Coal has always been there for…

Earlier today, two explosions tore through the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Police Department. These blasts have so far reportedly resulted in several deaths and perhaps more than 100 injuries. Mr. Speaker…

Over a century ago, the Federal Government pledged to actively manage our forests when Congress created the National Forest System. This management includes activities such as prescribed fires and thinning--and, yes, timber harvesting is a…

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act. If you're sick of government, spend a couple of years here. We talk about the American people. Please tell…

Take it to the Senate; run it through the process it's supposed to run through; get them appointed the right way; and then to go forward. Isn't that the American way? I'm not talking about a Republican way. I'm not talking about a Democrat…

To help commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address, I have introduced legislation, H.R. 1513, to preserve the historic Lincoln Train Station in Gettysburg. President Abraham Lincoln arrived at…

I'm wondering who will speak for underprivileged women, not only in the United States, but very particularly in Philadelphia. I'm here today to talk about an uncomfortable subject which no one seems to want to talk about. It is the Gosnell…

Thank you, Congressman Smith, for your leadership on this issue here in Congress, very, very wonderful, inspiring leadership to all of us who've been engaged in this, on this issue for years in State legislatures like Pennsylvania and…

Today my colleague, Representative Loebsack, and I are proud to reintroduce the Recovering Service Members Disability Benefits Act. This legislation is commonsense and fixes a glaring problem. Currently, our Nation's wounded warriors are…

Yesterday it was reported that the United States has 2.4 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas that can be recovered by current drilling techniques, according to a study by companies working in various shale basins across the country…

Yesterday, Dylan Quick, a 20-year-old student at Lone Star College in Texas, went on a rampage with a knife, hurting more than a dozen people. He told police he had fantasized since elementary school about stabbing people to death. Tucson…

While the Senate argues about gun issues and talking about what is in the hands of those perpetrators who commit heinous crimes, I want to talk about America's shameful secret that people don't want to be talking about, and that is our…

GE Transportation, a division of General Electric, is a locomotive manufacturing facility in Lawrence Park, Erie County, which is located in Pennsylvania's Fifth Congressional District. The plant is one of the largest employers in the…