The $0.20 an hour you might get under Make Work Pay would barely cover the added $1.60 a gallon that EPA says that gas could cost.

the so-called cap and trade measure is a revenue measure.

Unilateral action by the United States will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions in any significant way, but it will reduce U.S. economic growth and destroy millions of American jobs, especially in the manufacturing sector.

I appreciate having the opportunity to appear before you and with Chairman Rangel in support of our budget proposal for the 111th Congress.

As the world's leader in adopting children of other countries, we have a responsibility to ensure that intercountry adoption take place in a way that guarantees the children's safety and fully protects the rights of both the adoptive…

The Intercountry Adoption Act takes the next step, to ensure that international adoptions are safe, and that they are in the best interests of the child, the birth parents, and the adoptive parents.

I am very proud to join with my friend and colleague, the Chairman of the House International Relations Committee Benjamin Gilman, in introducing the Intercountry Adoption Act of 1999, legislation to implement the Hague Convention on…

I am introducing a bill today to repeal the Special Occupational Tax (SOT) on the sale of alcoholic beverages.

This tax is an unnecessary burden and should be eliminated.

I urge all of my colleagues to join me as cosponsors on this bill to repeal this unfair tax on small businesses.

We are introducing this bill to alleviate a problem that many of our constituents have raised with us.