Mr. Speaker, the last memory that Lynn McDonnell has of her 7-year-old daughter, Grace, is of a beaming, beautiful girl blowing kisses to her from a bus as she went on her way to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Soon thereafter, tragedy…

Thank you, Congresswoman Maloney. I'm pleased to be with you. I came up here as a new Member in a bipartisan spirit, and I really wanted to be standing here today embracing Mr. Ryan's plan; but I have to tell you, I'm worried about it. And…

Thank you, Representative. I want to thank you for letting me join you here today. I just want to say this. I know we've been standing up here and we've been critical of this Ryan budget and, respectfully, I think we're just saying it like…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, panel. A question, to change the subject a little bit. I am from south Florida. We have a very high number of seniors and folks with disabilities.

Let me ask you this: Does the repeal of the Affordable Care Act come with a repeal of people getting ill? I'm trying to figure out the logic here because if you repeal the Affordable Care Act, if you take Medicare and now you turn it into…

I ask another question: What is the logic in taking little children out of Head Start programs when we know that the path to middle class, the path to be able to take care of your family, to take care of yourself, to be a tax-paying…

Barbara is in no condition to take care of anybody. Listen, I think we all know, the American people know that we have to get our fiscal house in order. There is a deficit problem for us, but the American people want us to solve it in a…

On Sunday, March 3, 2 days after the failure of this body to stop the mindless budget cuts of the sequester that will slash millions of dollars for medical research, I was honored to join Bob and Suzanne Wright and thousands of others as…

But the increasing nuclear capacity is disturbing, as is assisting Iran in its procurement of a nuclear weapon.

I know we have heard some, it is quite horrifying to hear so many of the things you are talking about--human right violations, illicit activities of the counterfeiting of money, cigarettes, drugs.

What do we in the end do we want to accomplish? North Korea has 21 million people. It is in a strategic location.