If we do not start with equal opportunity, we cannot live up to our fundamental values and principles as a nation.

Mr. Speaker, this agreement is a good step forward; not a great step, but a good step. As vice chairman of the Budget Committee, and a veteran who serves on the Armed Services Committee, I want to speak for a moment about its impact on our…

Madam Chair, I rise to oppose this amendment. Now, I do not question my colleague from Ohio's commitment to our national security. He and I have worked together on this committee for several years. But I do think that this amendment would…

Madam Chair, colleagues, this vote is about several things. It is about war with Iran. The President and John Bolton have manufactured a crisis by withdrawing America from the Iran nuclear deal with no alternative, and Iran has a strategic…

Madam Chair, when is enough enough? The vote to go to war against Iraq in 2002 was a mistake. Congress should have been more careful, questioned the intelligence, and made sure that we exhausted every other option before we put young…

Mr. Chair, I want to point out that I agree with my colleague that this treaty is outdated, that Russia and China are developing weapons that exceed what is included here, but that is all the more reason why we need the time afforded by…

So how is it that people are going to make rational decisions, if the President of the United States is providing completely irrational assessments like that?

Shouldn't we just be paying a little bit of this money, a small portion of the $3 million budget of the VA Police Department every year just to the Bedford Police Department?

So can you just help me understand how that would happen? How this man, of all people, would be sent to the elite VA police academy?

We have already broken our climate; we don't need to break our economy to fix it.

I was one of the first Members of Congress to sign on to the Green New Deal as a signal to what a priority it must be for America to lead the world in addressing climate change.