Lynn C. Woolsey: “I move to strike the last word to oppose this amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized…”

We'll be spending the next several days debating the Department of Defense budget, a whopping $519.2 billion. By anyone's accounting, that's a lot of money. What we won't be debating is the future of our presence in Afghanistan. You'd…

It's the time of year when families reunite and renew their very close connections--connections that are actually, in most instances, the most precious parts of our lives. This Thanksgiving I know all of us were grateful for the company of…

Our Nation's transportation infrastructure is in terrible, terrible disrepair. More than ever, we need to be pumping resources into transportation projects and into initiatives for that end. We need to upgrade and modernize our roads and…

Next week, more than 20,000 delegates from around the world will convene in Washington for the International AIDS Conference. I find it ironic and a little bit sad that, as so many mobilize to fight this deadly epidemic, the majority in…