Louise Slaughter: “President Obama has made it clear that arts and music have a critical role to play in improving our workforce, our…”

We cannot allow this to continue. We owe it to these children to ensure our Nation's foster care system does all it can to protect them.

Oh, for goodness sake, last week we passed a bill worth hundreds of billion of dollars with less than a two-day layover and no one knew what was in it.

Thousands of lives are at stake daily, and these pilots must be compensated properly to ensure that we attract the people who can fly the planes adequately.

We are talking about billions of dollars that we could save in our health care system.