Elijah Lewis: “could the chairman tell me what appropriations conference reports we might expect to see on the floor next week?”

over the years, this Nation has worked hard to take discrimination out of the Constitution, and today, the House is voting to put it back in. I can recall just a few short years ago that there were laws inscribed in some State…

the President wants to blame the Democrats for the economic mess he's made. He is the one who wants to sweep our problems under the rug. He should be ashamed of himself. When he came into office, the previous administration had created…

the Voting Rights Act was good for America in 1965 and it is good and necessary in 2006. We must strengthen our resolve and complete the job that we began almost a year ago in a bipartisan way and pass the reauthorization of the Voting…

I have been listening to the people on the other side. It is unbelievable; it is unreal. Our country is in trouble; deep trouble. The economy is in a ditch. This President has offered a plan, a plan that he believes and 85 percent of the…