This is what democracy looks like. A win for the people! Over the establishment, over the status quo, even over Washington, D.C.!

If I go to Washington, I will fight for you.

I was stationed at the Pentagon when 9/11 happened. A few months later, I was on the ground in Afghanistan as head of the Navy's anti-terrorism unit for a short mission. I watched as the Taliban and al Qaeda flowed across that border over…

And I will always remember what the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said when asked about these debates here: Our men and women in the military are wise enough to know, this is your sacred duty here in the Halls of Congress…

Unless we are able to really energize our economy above its typical growth, we aren't going to make it in any real time.

The previous bill was on Alzheimer's. And, in my district, I had one of those patients. A few years ago, he was beat six times with a belt buckle. One of his neighbors had dementia, and he was defrauded of $84,000 four months before he…

I rise to make four points in support of this bill. First, I believe the U.S. Government response has actually been too timid and too slow. Let me just take, for example, the failure of this House on the first vote in September to pass the…

12,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer this year; 2,000 will not make it with their cancer to the end of this year. But there's no real face to those numbers until you've had it happen to you. As my new, wonderful friend from Ohio…

there are 8,500 autistic children in the U.S. military. Only 700 get intervention help. Part of the reason is that they, military families move every 2 to 3 years, and if they try to apply to their States into the right intervention help…

first I want to acknowledge my esteemed colleagues Congresswoman Schwartz and Patrick Murphy, and I very much respect what they're trying to do for the citizens of their districts. However, I have stood in this Chamber and watched…

Mr. Speaker, I joined up in the military during the Vietnam conflict, and at that time, and still today, we don't have human resource departments in the U.S. military. You tend, as a young division officer, to take care of the challenges…

When General Akhromeyev came from the Soviet Union to visit the United States when the Soviet Union was breaking up, Admiral Crowe took him to many places, including an aircraft carrier. When he departed the aircraft carrier, he was asked…

I rise to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month which does take place this year during May. The Asian American Pacific Islander, AAPI, community is, as was already noted, a very culturally and ethnically diverse community with a…

much has been said about how we got into this situation, although someone said it best, I thought: too little oversight, too much greed, too little understanding. But there are several things we do understand. There is no single cause for…

the completion of the human genome project 5 years ago made it possible to identify specific genes that trigger diseases later in life. However, out of at fear of losing their jobs or their health insurance, studies have shown that many…

Thank you very much. I may be the one slowing us down tonight because I'm 50-something in a 30-something group. This is wonderful. If I might speak, I'm really honored to be asked to say a few words on the last day of the Month of the…

This amendment mandates that an agency must specify in their notification that unsuccessful applicants are entitled to constructive feedback, potentially opening up the breadth of SBIR grant recipients. This is a very simple and valuable…

Shortly, General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will come before the House and the Senate to provide an update on the military and the political situation in Iraq. That is my grave concern, that once again we will have placed a man who is…

I was assigned to the Pentagon the day 9/11 happened. It was very obvious, sitting there at dead center, that the world had changed. We in the military used to like away games. We liked our wars over there. Suddenly we had a home game and…

when I joined the Navy during the Vietnam War, we had one destroyer in the Persian Gulf. And a few years later in the early 1970s, we had our very first embargo of oil, blockade of oil of the United States when OPEC, which today controls…

when 9/11 happened, we, as a Nation, realized that, while we used to like away games, we liked our wars over there, suddenly we were confronted with a home game, a danger right here in America. And so the discussion over the last few weeks…

for nearly a century, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP, has been fighting for the civil rights and dignity of people of color. As a result of their efforts, our great Nation today can boast of a…

Today our country faces significant labor shortages in occupations that are vital to our educational, health and, therefore, our national security. I believe the list of health occupations for which national need exists must also include…

in the wake of the 9/11 attacks against the United States, I was sent on the ground for a short period of time to Afghanistan. As a Navy admiral, I saw what needed to be accomplished. Eighteen months later, I returned on the ground and saw…