Thomas A. Garrett: “I would argue that the best arbiter of the needs of the working world are the local communities.”

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.

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.