The need for us to meet the demands in these areas and to make sure that that capability exists in this country is huge.

How can we improve medical screening so that we have better relationship between the Veterans Administration and the DoD?

As you look at shipbuilding, please look at the Great Lakes.

It's over time for Wall Street megabanks, their CEOs, speculators, and sharpies to come and scrub the floors of homeless shelters across this country that are crammed with people who have lost their homes. Let's make those Wall Street…

Everybody is talking about Chrysler's Super Bowl commercial ``Halftime in America.'' It featured Clint Eastwood, relating the recovery of the American automobile industry. That inspirational ad has now gone viral as people share its…

I would hope that in additional documents you can submit to the committee, you can address how the Department views that strategic issue and what you are doing to meet it and to help us restore energy independence as a country.

I want to thank Dr. Christensen for holding this very, very important Special Order as we begin Black History Month here in the United States and say how proud I am to serve with her, her path- breaking work in health care, leading us to…

I thank my esteemed colleague, Congressman Mike Michaud of Maine, for allowing me this time to join him and to rise in support of his motion to instruct conferees on a payroll tax cut extension bill that strikes a section that undermines…

Tonight the President will speak to America and the world in the annual State of the Union Address. I'm eager to hear his ideas about additional job creation because job creation must be America's number one priority. Back home in northern…

My first reaction upon reading Dr. Gordon Gee's denigrating comments about the Polish Army was to see red--blood red. As a Polish American, I fail to see the humor when the president of The Ohio State University described bureaucratic turf…

I want the 2.3 million unemployed Americans to know that not all Members of this House are heartless. In fact, 193 Members of this House stand with the unemployed of this country, the 2.3 million mothers and fathers who have children and…

Here we go again. Another phony crisis, courtesy of the extremist bah-humbug House Republicans. House Republicans have never met a deal they couldn't find a reason to dislike. Now they've resorted to fighting their colleagues in the other…