Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick: “did I understand the gentleman to say that over 1.3 million children in Michigan will not be able to take advantage of…”

at this time, the Congressional Black Caucus will present our 2009 budget for the fiscal year: Tough Choices, Right Priorities. The Federal budget is $3.1 trillion. Of these four main entitlements: Medicare, programs for over 40 million…

This is about the law. This is about Michigan's law. In 1993, after 20 years of trying, the Michigan legislature--I, a member at that time, and others--passed a law that, after many referendums in the City of Detroit, a referenda would be…

at the beginning of every Congress, every member of this august body takes an oath to ``defend and protect the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'' It is an oath that I am proud that the majority…

personal business requires my presence in the congressional district, and I am unable to be present for legislative business scheduled for today, Tuesday, March 14, 2006. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on H. Con. Res. 354…