Now every Member of Congress that I have ever talked to on this subject has affirmed the core idea that parental rights should be protected as a fundamental right.

They just want to have happy history and not really history, and they don't want to talk about slavery because that is not happy history.

In a case such as this where the right is already widely established under the Constitution and where the purported threats are highly speculative, I would have grave reservations about moving forward with a constitutional amendment.

The government command of separating children from parents is becoming epidemic.

The Supreme Court has long recognized that the right of otherwise fit parents and guardians to make decisions about the upbringing of a child under their care is a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment's due process clause.

There is a reason why we have amended the Constitution so rarely and why the Framers made it so difficult to amend.

It doesn't put us in a good light.

The False Claims Act has been responsible since 1987 for bringing in $39 billion in recoveries from corporations that cheated the American taxpayer.

These issues affect my constituents in a major way. Second chance opportunities for employment is one of the things I hear most from constituents.

if people who had convictions in the past were allowed to vote, if they voted, by their simple action of voting they would show they were in the upper 10 percent of the citizenry.

Voting, in my district we had an election in May, a primary election for county offices, very important and about 10 percent of the people who were registered voted.