Mark Souder: “So is it is an increase; it is just a question of how big an increase and what that means. Is the gentleman familiar…”

Back when Thomas Jefferson did the first Louisiana Purchase, he got all parts of 13 States for, what's in inflation-adjusted dollars, $150 million today. When the Senate health care bill passed, it cost $300 million to just get and buy one…

In an earlier bill where I was talking about the veterans health care parts of this bill as we paid tribute to Cold War veterans, Chairman Andrews and I had a follow-up discussion about two of the details which shows the difficulty of this…

I believe education is the responsibility of the States and local; and yet I passionately believe in the importance of education. I don't know how we are going to compete in the international marketplace if we don't compete on math and…

I wanted to share a few thoughts. Many years ago, I was a student at Indiana Purdue University in Fort Wayne. I'm old now. But in the late 1960s and 1970s, prior to Roe v. Wade, many of us were concerned about the liberalization of…