The military and the Department of Defense should not be politically correct. I have talked to some doctors who practiced with the major. They say he was advising young men and women who served in the military who were in Afghanistan and…

The bill would put the money in escrow for anyone charged like this and if they were found innocent they would receive the money. If they were guilty, they would not get the money because you should not be paying somebody, particularly in…

With this report, we are holding China to account for its complicity in profits off of modern-day slavery.

I am disappointed and I would say this with all respect to my friend, Ambassador CdeBaca, we were disappointed, many of us, to see that Vietnam was not downgraded to the Tier II Watch List or Tier III.

If we don't do something big and grand and bold like that, and it troubles me, I have 16 grandkids, I worry about their future.

Our oceans and our coasts are among our greatest natural resources and largest public trust.

I strongly urge the House of Representatives to maintain $45 million for drug courts at the Department of Justice and $4 million for veterans' treatment courts.

we have funded NSF at the highest level ever.

In 2010 the ocean economy contributed $258 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product.

I think hopefully we can come up with some grand bargain that eliminates the sequestration certainly for the next nine years and maybe even for the rest of this year.

We are seeing the domestic discretionary squeezed and squeezed.

Secondly, and Mr. Fattah and I are going to put in a bill for a national commission looking at the whole prison system.