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

Mr. Speaker, 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…

Mr. Speaker, 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…

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.

Madam Speaker, I rise to honor the University of Louisville Cardinals, who went to a second straight Final Four this season and returned home national champions. Going into the NCAA tournament, the question was whether the Cards' stifling…

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…

Mr. Speaker, 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…

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

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

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…

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…