next week marks the anniversary of my Alive Day. That is the anniversary of the last day I ever woke up, laced up my boots, and climbed into my Black Hawk helicopter; the day when an RPG shot my helicopter out of the Iraqi sky; the day…

if society can agree that alcohol, tobacco and drugs should be kept at least 1,000 feet away from our schools, surely we can agree that tear gas—a chemical weapon which causes burning, pain, skin inflammation and respiratory distress—and…

Federal agents continue to use unwarranted, excessive levels of force around Chicago, demonstrating an alarming lack of care or regard for the health and wellbeing of children, particularly by conducting unfocused, inflammatory operations…

We demand you pressure your colleague, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, to reinstate restrictions on Federal immigration enforcement operations in and around places of education.

My heart breaks for Darren and Cindy Bailey as they face such an unimaginable loss. No parent should ever have to bury their own child.

in the last few months, we have seen President Trump force military troops, uninvited, into American cities--first into Los Angeles, then into our Nation's Capital, and now into Chicago. Let's be clear: Ordering our troops to intimidate…

it is with great pride and gratitude that I rise to celebrate the public service career of Ms. Ronna Erin Beckmann, who is departing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, after 21 years of service in congressional and…

I believe they're going to be Illinois national guardsmen, so they're not going to be coming from out of state. I spoke to our governor yesterday, and it looks like it's going to be about 300 Illinois guardsmen who will be activated…

resign in disgrace immediately.

It's the exact message that he wants to send, which is you're not welcome here. They've been trying to basically push out any diversity in our military, which actually makes our military less capable, less ready to defend Americans.

I think he's renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War.

Let's make it clear, the president of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation.

It would be an illegal order to declare war on major city, any city, within the United States by the president of the United States.

This is not normal, Margaret. This is not acceptable behavior.

deeply disturbing, un-American, and have no place in any of our cities.

It’s yet another unwarranted, unwanted and unjust move straight out of the authoritarian’s playbook that will only undermine our military’s readiness and ultimately weaken our national security.

I'm disgusted that Donald Trump met with Putin on American soil and did so with no representatives from Ukraine.

So there are all those moms and daughters and sisters and best friends come home.

Are women hitting the dashboard at a different spot than men? Are we hitting a particular item in a car more often and that's causing more injury?

That's where these crash test dummies that are the average, the size of the average woman will help us find, gather that data.

You are not currently prepared for this posting, period, and you need to shape up and do some homework.

He's not qualified for the job, just by nature of the fact that he participated in this Signal chain.

when House Republicans were confronted with concerns that H.R. 1 would threaten SNAP benefits for veterans, the Republican chairman of the House Agriculture Committee defiantly claimed: Our veterans are exempt from the SNAP work…

Trump is throwing himself a $30 million birthday parade just to stroke his own ego.

After the deadly crash near Reagan National Airport, FAA closed the helicopter route involved, but a lack of coordination between FAA and the Department of Defense has continued to put the flying public at risk.