Alcee Hastings: “I serve on the Rules Committee with the distinguished gentlewoman, my good friend, Ms. Matsui from California…”

Let's judge our partners and friends, not by number of laws they have adopted but by the effectiveness with which they are implementing these laws.

for over a decade the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) saved millions of America's low-income families from suffering the consequences of living without healthcare insurance, and exemplified our nation's commitment to…

I intend, as chairperson, to build and maintain active U.S. engagement in the OSCE, based on principled foreign policy.

I do think that its disadvantages outweigh its advantages, and that it ultimately will not work with a budget as complex and as fraught with partisanship as ours.