Betty McCollum: “It is a dirty little family secret, folks, and it needs to come out in the public if we are going to work on this.”

The President is now reportedly seeking $200 billion in supplemental funding from Congress for his war--an astounding amount that far surpasses the costs of the war that have been reported during the past four weeks.

I rise in opposition to the slate of permitting bills that the Republican majority has brought to the House Floor this week.

These water settlements are judgments. These water settlements are contracts the United States Government entered into.

For America to be engaged in large scale conflict overseas for nearly a month--with no clarity for Congress or the American public about why--is shocking, unacceptable, and unprecedented in our history.