As a Member of Congress, I am ashamed of that fact, and I think it has to become a bigger priority.
I opposed the Republican budget resolution because it was not a serious document, it targeted American families and thei...
Listen to the representatives of the Veterans of Foreign Wars who have spent the week visiting Members' Capitol Hill off...
We must invest in both defense and domestic priorities and reject the Faustian bargain that would fund one and not the o...
the State Department, USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Peace Corps and other development agencies are critical t...
Do not balance the budget on the backs of America's poor and struggling working families.
Efforts to convert SNAP into a block grant program would be catastrophic.
We shouldn't change its entitlement structure. We shouldn't cut it.
The bottom line is, we learned that SNAP works.
After a media campaign by me and some strong action by the State Department and my Congressman Al Green, the Chinese Con...
Feedback to me from the China Consulate in Houston has been that they don't think Sandy is a spy, but they can't help in...