Political Quotes

I intend to assure the seniors of the District of Columbia that I will have no greater priority than preserving Medicare.

Today, the United States continues to possess around 7,300 operational nuclear warheads, and the other declared nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, and China--are estimated to possess over 10,000 operational warheads.

Mr. Speaker, today, I reintroduce a bill to give the District of Columbia and the four insular areas a privilege the 50 states achieved last year: to choose a design for the reverse side of the quarter coin in order to commemorate our history as part of the United States.

The new science shows that brain development determining lifelong learning begins much earlier in infants and children than was previously believed.