Laura Richardson: “COPS is critical to any local chief of police. I am just going to say it like it is.”

Today more than ever, America's fate is inextricably linked to events beyond our shores.

It is an expression of our commitment to the American public, and a contract that we cannot deny.

I think the threat to our National economy, the global economy, to lives is severe.

I am deeply troubled, living in a port community where we bring 40 to 45 percent of the entire nation's cargo goes through my district.