Madam Speaker, across our Nation, we face an epidemic. In schools, in churches, on our streets, Americans are dying from gun violence. We have a moral responsibility to do everything in our power to prevent more people from suffering the…

Yet fewer dollars are going into Social Security than are being paid out, and the program is in danger of being insolvent.

strengthening Social Security is obviously an imperative here.

I am encouraged by our friend and colleague, Representative Larson, who is taking meaningful steps to safeguard access to Social Security.

A promise made, in my view, should always be a promise kept.

A modest increase in the Social Security tax for those individuals earning $400,000 or more would actually make it not only solvent, but sustainable.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge that any long-term infrastructure agreement reached between Congress and the President must invest in the resiliency of coastal communities. Lake Ontario is already over 11 inches higher than average…

``Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the President, such as suborning perjury, intimidating witnesses, or fabricating evidence, because those prohibitions raise no separation of powers questions. . . . The…

``After it was reported that Cohen intended to cooperate with the government, however, the President accused Cohen of `making up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (taxicabs maybe?),' called Cohen a `rat,' and on…

Over the past 4 decades there has been a concerted effort to diminish the right of workers to organize and collectively bargain.

Thank you for your lifetime of efforts on behalf of America's working families.