It is essential and necessary.

I am very proud of my constituents.

I receive letters from my constituents every week, sometimes hundreds of letters. I would like to share this evening a letter which I received from a young teacher in my district, a letter about his family and their difficulty in attaining…

before coming to Congress I did serve for 6 years at Ohio's only maximum security prison in Lucasville, OH, and I can tell the Members that the job of a corrections officer is a difficult and a dangerous one. In 1991, there were 10,192…

that which separates this Nation from all others on the face of this earth is our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was written specifically to protect minority opinion. That is why I am so concerned about a vote that…

I just saw the insurance industry's latest commercial featuring Harry and Louise, criticizing the President's health care plan. Harry frets about the President's attempt to reform our health care system and Louise says, ``Write to us and…