Chris Ward: “Parents have always retained the right to have meaningful conversation with their children and play a crucial role in…”

Mr. Speaker, after the Clinton administration has worked so hard to reduce the deficit by over 50 percent, this budget actually raises the deficit a billion dollars. Instead of being fiscally responsible and reducing the deficit, the…

let me say first for the record that the buying power of the minimum wage is the lowest it has been in 40 years. To deny an increase in the minimum wage is reprehensible. Mr. Speaker, today I have risen to speak as we approach Earth Day, a…

I appreciate the nonpartisanship of getting the time from the Republican side because I want to remind the House of the tragedy that took place in Louisville, KY, at the Standard Gravure plant. People were working when a disgruntled former…

But I rise in support of our women in uniform serving overseas. This amendment allows women stationed overseas to obtain safe health care at military hospitals with their own money. If enacted, this amendment would reinstate Department of…