Louise Slaughter: “We are talking about billions of dollars that we could save in our health care system.”

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.

As the nation continues to shift from an industrial manufacturing economy to one based on ideas and information, cities and states increasingly recognize that the arts and culture are important economic assets.

We have artists in the city of Chester that have taken what we would call junk and turned it into treasure.

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.