John Doolittle: “I just wonder if he could tell us what is too much money or perhaps what is the appropriate amount of money that we…”

in crafting Social Security legislation, we must offer workers the ability to own a portion of their retirement through personal accounts. President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to…

the most critical crisis in rural America, where there are large tracts of public forest land, is to deal with this issue of funding for the Secure Rural Schools. The funding did finally come this year, but it came too late, at least for…

today we are about to further our independence on foreign sources of energy. I fully support that effort and urge my colleagues to do so as well. However, one item of particular concern to me is the contamination of groundwater by MTBE--a…

I appreciate the chance to join in this salute to Norm Shumway as we prepare to name this post office in his honor. In reviewing his biography, Norm has been a son of San Joaquin, and quite legitimately is. I do note in his biography he…