I think we should all challenge ourselves across, you know, the federal government, across agencies.

Opponents of comprehensive immigration reform will do anything to stop progress in today's world. Now they're using the terrorist attacks in Boston to somehow draw some connection between those events and the problems that really plague…

This is what my constituent, Barbara Kelty, wrote to the Louisville Courier-Journal this morning: While polls continue to say that a majority of NRA members and a sizable majority of the American people support background checks and a…

I want to thank you and my colleagues. I wasn't here; I was at another meeting... our thoughts obviously go out to all of the victims there.

Would it not be fair to say by the same logic because of the sequester, because of the Budget Control Act, the roughly $2 trillion worth of cuts that we have enacted over the last three years, that the Republicans got their cuts, and yet…

Sequestration has been in effect for 41 days, and already it is hurting American families. Just outside my district at Fort Knox, more than 5,000 civilian employees face at least 2 weeks of furlough because of these indiscriminate cuts in…

As we work to foster a growing economy, we must make sure Washington does not block the road to growth and prosperity.

I would disagree with the characterization, Mr. Gustafson, that this is, you want a demand-driven rather than supply-driven because I would take the position that we are here to serve the citizens of the country not necessarily the…

My primary concern just with SKILLS Act is the idea of block granting these funds to the state.

we, at least we Democrats, then Ben Chandler and I, and Baron Hill from Indiana, and others, worked with Representative Boucher of Virginia to kind of construct a methodology that would have minimal impact, or the least negative impact on…

the state of the law is that not only does EPA have the authority to regulate carbon emissions, it has the requirement to regulate carbon emissions, isn't that correct?

this bill basically does is just eliminate one of the tools that you might have to regulate carbon emissions to meet the requirement that you have under the law?