These schools play a major role for many people in our communities finding employment and staying in that community.

I am proud to say, Pennsylvania's 11th Congressional District is home to a number of initiatives designed to help spur small business growth and development.

When our Nation is facing inconceivable debt levels and the taxpayers of this Nation have been clear about Washington getting its fiscal house in order, my question is, how can we afford to ignore successful programs like the D.C. choice…

Yet this administration has not supported that successful program and put forward a budget proposal that increases spending on all of these other programs that have not significantly improved student achievement.

No factor under school control affects student achievement more than the quality for the teachers in the classroom.

Three years from now, the health care law will force employers with more than 50 employees to provide government-sanctioned coverage to their employees under a penalty of $2,000 per employment--employee tax.

I completely agree that half of all insured Americans under the Affordable Care Act will be pushed into a Medicaid program that is deeply flawed, tremendously expensive and a real burden on state budgets.

As someone from a commonwealth that is home to more than 2 million medical assistant recipients, and as someone whose commonwealth is facing serious budget issues, won't these costs place an even greater burden on the states and resulting…

We all can agree that we would like to save whatever manufacturing jobs we have left here in America.

Now is not the time for us to be worrying about what tax rates should be in 2 years. We should be worried about job creation today.

Illegal is illegal.