Karen Thurman: “I too listened to the other speaker and I too am I classroom teacher. I taught for 9 years, middle school math, in a…”

Mr. Speaker, this is the most important vote that I ever will cast in this House. Deciding when to send our troops into harm's way is never easy and must not be made without serious consideration. My father was a career Air Force sergeant…

And that is a concern because there needs to be a debate. We need to understand the cost. We need to understand the consequence of whatever we bring to the floor. We need to understand if there is a market product out there for us. I mean…

one of the things that is missed in this debate is that we watched the Social Security solvency, as well as Medicare, increase by year. Every year we were moving ahead, not backwards. So at first when we heard about Social Security, it was…

one other issue that the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Brown) brought up that I also think is very important in this debate and quite frankly it is an issue that our Republican colleagues are having, I can say from CongressDaily today, one…