Political Quotes

the only valid passport out of poverty.

Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the America COMPETES Act, in particular the inclusion of legislation to reauthorize title VI of the Higher Education Act sponsored by myself and Representative Young of Alaska. This will help our…

I would appreciate your reflections on this and what the evidence so far shows because we, of course, in this country have a strong stake in human rights and in supporting democratic governments worldwide.

We on this subcommittee learned the hard way in the last Congress how hard it was and how limited our tools were to deal with a summarily--and we thought unconstitutional--cutoff of aid to the West Bank and Gaza and also to the Triangle…