Lynn C. Woolsey: “But today, exactly 1 month before the deadline, the majority leadership still has not acted. Mr. Speaker, on July 4…”

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…

I'm proud to cosponsor the amendment offered by my friend from California. If approved, this amendment would accomplish two goals: One, to end this war, and two, to save the taxpayers $21 billion, something I think both sides of the aisle…

I hope the Majority would agree that a scientifically credible study of VPP is necessary before moving forward with legislation to expand this program.

More than 2,000 U.S. troops have been killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, that dramatically understates the human cost of this war, a war that is now nearly 11 years old. A recent Time magazine cover story details the…