Sam Farr: “Congress is synonymous with BRAC for me.”

History has shown us what we can get by retreating into a defensive, isolationist crouch.

If you want stable democracy and you are a highly religious society, it simply won't work without religious freedom.

We will take our chances down the road, even if that may mean a much steeper cost in terms of American blood and American treasure.

I passed legislation called Proud to be an American Day. I was hoping that we could do that on the morning of the Fourth of July, but, because it is a Federal holiday, the Federal immigration people don't work that day. So we have been…