Richard Gephardt: “Why are you not for a plan that gets everybody involved with their responsibility to have health care?”

I rise to urge a free and fair debate on this floor about the future of Social Security before the November elections occur. Here we are in October, nearing what will become the end of the 107th Congress, and we have yet to have a real…

26 years ago, I was fortunate to be elected by my constituents to serve in this House, and I represent today the district in which I was born. I am proud that the people of my district trust me to try to represent them every day. It is an…

I admire the work that she has done consistently over a long period of time to try to get hate crimes legislation passed here in the House of Representatives. Mr. Speaker, last year we came very close to making this bill the law of the…

last January, I traveled to South Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam to discuss issues of peace, reconciliation, trade and security between the United States and Asia. It was a remarkable trip that helped us to learn. We learned so much about…