Karen Thurman: “People would cry if they heard some of the letters I have gotten as we have started talking about this: wives saying I…”

Mr. Speaker, the Democratic Caucus drafted a balanced energy plan that was paid for, the Markey-Stenholm-Sandlin-Frost proposal, which should have had a chance to have been voted on today, but the House was denied the opportunity. My…

What is interesting is the States have recognized the potential problem or the problem they are having, and State legislatures were getting a lot of pressure put on them to change their laws and, in fact, did in some of these legislatures…

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…

People sometimes do not realize how complicated Medicare can be at times; and when one is trying to balance beneficiaries and the doctors and the contractors, sometimes we have to work through some very difficult situations. I will tell my…