House leadership refused to even allow a vote on an amendment I proposed to restore $150 million in fisheries disaster aid.

Rather than helping to find real solutions to deal with climate change, many have denied its existence.

Thank you to Chairman Hastings, Ranking Member Markey, and Members of the House Natural Resources Committee for holding the first hearing on the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) today.

My constituents on Cape Cod, the Islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard and the South Shore of Massachusetts have strong opinions about how their taxpayer money should be spent.

I urge the Budget Committee to be weary of shortsighted austerity that will eliminate job-creating initiatives and compromise our safety for the sake of immediate savings.

I support a plan that combines common sense tax reform with pragmatic spending cuts don't disproportionally affect our middle class families or seniors.

Madam Speaker, I was a DA for 12 years. I solicited and actually used these funds. We talk about issues. As people see issues, I see faces. I see the faces of innocent women who are victims, and I see the faces of the perpetrators…

I am intrigued by the idea of a New Silk Road in Central Asia.

We need to push airport security out past the checkpoint and long before a passenger approaches the airport.

Since 2001, there's been over 1,300 perimeter security breaches at airports.

If there is a cyber breach in one of the big five financial institutions, for even several hours, they go bankrupt.