Steve Israel: “I am here today to implore Congress to immediately pass the Cancer Care Reform Act, H.R. 1934, a bipartisan bill…”

Both of these races will test this proposition, do Democratic voters want purity and ideology on the left? Or do they want pragmatism and winnability near the center?

If you don't pass both of these bills, the midterm is over, you're back in the minority.

I can tell you, Long Islanders, they will tolerate disagreement with their Member of Congress. They will not tolerate dishonesty.

Ronald Reagan has to be spinning in his grave at the prospect of the conservative movement that used to be the bulwark against tyranny in the world, giving the stage to a tyrant who endorses and supports Vladimir Putin.