I think we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal to make sure that we're honoring our promises to make sure our veterans are healthy, wealthy, and wise.

These veterans and their families, quite frankly, have sacrificed enough.

It should not be this hard for the men and women, who dutifully raised their right hand in service to our Nation, to get the healthcare and the disability benefits that they have earned by their courageous service. And the VA needs to fix…

So, I agree with the chairwoman of the House Armed Services Committee on Military Personnel that we should make that notification official and we should try to expedite it in the next available legislative vehicle.

I fully appreciate the difficulty of your task.

the rights of women and girls was not included as a priority for us going into negotiations

we taught a quarter of a million Afghan women how to read and write.

the most important accomplishment, I think in 50 years looking back

this is certainly a momentous time for Afghanistan and the region.

Justice Ginsburg was a force for good on the Supreme Court and a true champion for justice, equality, and the balance of power in our representative democracy.

rise to the occasion by standing up for the great cause of women's rights, which is indisputably human rights