Karen Thurman: “I just want to let my colleagues know that, just a couple of months ago, Bob Butterworth, the Attorney General for the…”

And we could say the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) has given us a wonderful opportunity to understand what happened in Nevada. And it would seem to me that it would be something this Congress ought to be looking at where the…

Social Security is a very important issue, and certainly I think she laid out to the public what is happening here in Congress. And I agree with her that we should not be spending the Social Security money on anything other than Social…

I would say to our chairman that I think one of the issues here is that we are really trying to get an opportunity to debate this issue, and not under the consent calendar, and to move it along in a different manner. I would also bring in…

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…