Carol Shea-Porter

H.R. 1410 would bring some common sense to this situation and clarify that no tribe may conduct gaming on lands taken into trust after April 9, 2013.

Today, the House proved that if it really wants to, it can move quickly. Today, we made it easier for air travelers, and I'm very happy that we did that. But the sequester is still there, and it is still impacting schools. I have a little…

This week marks the 50th anniversary of a terrible submarine disaster. The USS Thresher, the first in a new class of subs designed to answer the Soviet threat in the Cold War, left the world's greatest shipyard, the Portsmouth Naval…

DOD notes that, "The U.S. Government has enduring national interests in the Arctic, including security, economic, and scientific interests," and that "it is clear there is a current and continued future imperative to provide a sovereign…

I think doing this and doing it quickly now is appropriate, and I want to thank everybody for working in a bipartisan manner to honor the men and women.

It has been said that Al Qaeda's strategy is to draw the United States into an extended global conflict that validates the narrative that the United States is permanently at war with Islam.

Sequestration cuts are bad policy and bad for the American people.

The cuts to the Department of Defense budget are destructive and indiscriminate.

I also encourage you to look at the Balancing Act, which I offered with other members of the Progressive Caucus, as an alternative to the dangerous sequester cuts.

Are other Pacific nations also beginning to question our commitment to the Pacific region?

Degraded facilities put missions at risk and delayed MILCON projects endanger the implementation of international agreements.

China's rapid development of advanced military capabilities, combined with its unclear intentions, certainly raises strategic and security concerns.

Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race.

America is facing some very serious problems, and they're looking to Congress for a solution. What have we done this week since the sequester is coming on Friday? We had one vote yesterday, and that was to rename a flight center, and we…

Republicans are holding tax cuts for the middle class hostage as they try to extend tax cuts for millionaires. They say letting tax cuts for the very wealthy expire will hurt small businesses. It is just not true. Ninety-seven percent of…

I would also like to point out I have a basketball player in my home, and I certainly had the biography because the man that we're talking about, the great hero, John Robert Wooden, did indeed show Americans how to play a sport and how to…

With obesity rates on the rise, we owe it to our children to not only provide them with fresh, healthy meals.

We all know that it's just harder to concentrate when you are hungry.

Without free or reduced meals, some children would go without breakfast or lunch.

Although our community has benefitted enormously from energy development, our list illustrates that the costs of maintaining infrastructure and public services have outstripped our ability to fund these necessities.

Considering our unemployment rate is over 8 percent right now and we have lost millions of jobs, is this really a big job-creator?

I don't understand why so many people in this country brag about our past technology achievements while they deride and criticize our present technology achievements and absolutely doubt this future.

The American public wants accountability. We want accountability, and I think we also want to make sure that it is not just a lesson learned.

People in New Hampshire say to me, where are the indictments? Who is looking, and is there ever going to be anybody who has to pay for this?

If we think this is a problem now, imagine what it would be like if we had some kind of problem where people couldn't access food.