In the end, only Congress will decide if and how it will act.

On Friday, May 18, 2012, I missed rollcall votes No. 290 (Democratic Motion-to-Recommit) and 291 (Final Passage of H.R. 4310, ``FY13 National Defense Authorization Act''). Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 290…

I think when you're looking at a State like Ohio, and like many States, like Maryland, like Pennsylvania, where you're retooling your economy, you've got to grow scientists, engineers, people involved in technology, in math, and you've got…

I thank the gentlelady, who is also a graduate of the University of New Hampshire Law School--two proud graduates. I would just like to chime in and talk a little bit because Ohio is a State that, since the inception of the State into the…

We can either ignore the law or abide by the law.

The House budget makes a proposal, the one that we had passed, makes a proposal to bring down spending now, earlier and faster.

I thank the gentlelady, and I'm glad I have the opportunity to follow the gentlelady from Cleveland because my district is just south of her district. As you can see from the map of Ohio, there is severe poverty and food insecurity in the…

I think feeding the hungry is a constitutional imperative.

$122 billion is absolutely unconscionable.

When Republicans were in power, more people went into poverty because jobs were outsourced.

For me it fails on a moral level as well as a civil level.

I frankly cannot support a budget that expands tax preferences for the most wealthy by nearly a trillion dollars, $961 billion, while cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, our major food program, by $122 billion.