With an average margin of victory of more than 40 points, an undefeated season, and a win in the State championship that Sports Illustrated called the team's ``finest offensive performance of the year,'' there can be no more debate…

About 1 year ago, Republicans were insisting that before we do anything to help unemployed Americans, we had to guarantee that tax rates for the richest of the rich were made at the lowest level in 50 years. Before doing anything to help…

The average American household has lost $8,000 of income over the last few years. If we want to put a number on the economic crisis facing our country right now, that should be it. If you ask the average person how to get $8,000 back into…

This week at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center, the Speaker of the House gave a speech on the need to find common ground, but without compromise. We've been testing the wisdom of this approach all this year. Here's what we've…

I thank the gentleman. It was an incredible competition. As Trey Gowdy said just this morning, if you were there during this event and during the event preceding, the night before, you could not have told who was a Republican and who was a…

On October 3, eight Democrats and eight Republicans met in an epic competition here at Columbia Country Club in Washington to contest, for the 10th time, the battle for the Roll Call Ryder Cup. This is a competition which is intense but…

We talk a lot about our different concerns for the future of our Nation, but there is one gravely serious threat that exists in every single congressional district and could cripple future generations and the long-term strength of our…

The American Jobs Act has been presented to the American people, but in this House it doesn't sound like it's going to get much of a hearing. Republican leadership has called it dead and has called it a partisan piece of legislation. Well…

This is a misguided policy that has no basis in House rules or policies.

The policy established by Speaker Pelosi and continued by Speaker Boehner is that every foreign delegation must be bipartisan.

I thank my friend from New York. It's a great pleasure to talk about the subject that's on every American's mind, and that is, how do we rebuild America, how do we put Americans back to work, and how do we recreate the kind of America that…

I thank the gentleman from Colorado. Madam Speaker, yesterday our Republican colleagues said that their party was using the leverage of the default crisis to get what they want, their ideological agenda passed. The problem is it's not what…