Timothy Roemer: “I think that the budget that we came up with, the blue dog coalition budget, balances the budget by the year 2002. It…”

I rise to express my heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Congresswoman Patsy Mink, including her husband John and daughter Wendy, and the people of Hawaii's Second Congressional District who share our recent loss. Patsy Mink…

I want to emphasize that we can quantify results in a number of ways, but there is one metric we can't account for, and that is the number of lives that have been saved.

I rise in support of strengthening retirement security in America. Congress should act now to clean up executive mismanagement and check corporate greed that is responsible for the loss over $175 billion in pension savings. In my home…

last week U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Irish rock star Bono on a tour of Africa called attention to the need for international development to alleviate world poverty and suffering. As their trip demonstrated, impoverished…