Earmarks have been used as a vehicle for waste and fraud and abuse. Projects have been inserted at the 11th hour without review and sometimes without merit in order to satisfy the political or personal agendas of a given legislator.

Taxing employee health benefits is the largest middle-class tax increase in history.

While I pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I'm President of the United States of America.

You can't have Congress bogged down at this critical juncture in our economic recovery. But I also view this as a departure point for more far-reaching change.

One of the first women bank vice presidents in the state of Hawaii but I also saw how she hit a glass ceiling.

That's why so many of us are here today, because of the women who came before us who were determined to see us sit in the high seats. Women who reached for the balance and raised families and traveled long, lonely roads to be the first in…

I want to highlight the President's funding request for some of our critical modes.

Despite resources that are unmatched anywhere in the world, we've let our grades slip. Our schools crumble. Our teacher quality fall short. And other nations outpace us.

We've let our grades slip. Our schools crumble. Our teacher quality fall short. And other nations outpace us.

I want to make the Merchant Marine Academy the same jewel that Air Force, West Point and Annapolis are.

This effort is vital not only for protecting U.S. investors in global markets, but for protecting our financial sector from the consequences of a global regulatory race to the bottom.