Thomas A. Garrett: “The government closest to home is most effective, most accountable, and governs best.”

We have an ability--and a responsibility... to be a check on executive power by virtue of speaking when we are in disagreement.

I believe, paraphrasing, there are threats greater than an Islamist insurgency that's nationalist in its nature.

These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.