Gary Ackerman: “A lousy $75 million or $150 million is not going to pull them out of the doldrums that they have been experiencing.”

We need two viable political parties in this country to make our democracy work.

Today the Middle East is a very different region than the one I first encountered as a new Member of Congress in 1983.

I have always found that Members of Congress don't get enough credit for being as thoughtful as most of us have been.

I still find it intriguing that people who are such really brilliant thinkers will sometimes reach conclusions that one might legitimately disagree with.