Frank Riggs: “yesterday the President convened a meeting of the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House and he urged…”

good morning. As my colleagues know, I guess this partisan debate really boils down to whether we want to see the glass as half empty or half full, and it is too reminiscent of I think the all too common American mindset of what have you…

That mandate is embedded in current law, and what we are trying to do now by proposing reforms to the Federal Bilingual and Immigration Education Acts is to give local school districts more say, more flexibility, more discretion, more…

fundamentally this debate is about the refusal of my colleagues on the other side to give up their Band-Aid-- their fig leaf--their placebo for the failure of their great society social programs and the failure of the public education…

I support the provision that is in the bill that would prohibit Federal money from being spent on needle exchange programs but believe we should go one step further and adopt the Tiahrt amendment because that would extend or broaden that…