I am sick of watching kids fail based on their ZIP Code.

I believe in equal educational opportunities, but I don't think we are going to have equal results.

The way we arrive at the best solutions is by letting loose 50 laboratories for democracy and finding out what works.

It is often said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions and I have seen all too often people attack aspirants to serve in political capacities based on what program they supported or didn't support.

I think in many cases the Federal Government has a very limited role in that and that for us to always look to the Federal Government to solve every problem that exists out there is a mistake.

the government closest to home is most effective, most accountable, and governs best.

I believe that education is the answer to so many things that so many challenges facing people in this country from getting out of poverty, to finding meaningful work, to having a successful life.

It is the belief of this member that no child based on any external factor is any less capable of success than another child.

I think one of the existential challenges, and I use that word intentionally, existential, facing America is the denial of a fundamental entitlement of American birth, and that is the entitlement to an opportunity.

Our schools are failing our children.

I want to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt thanks to my distinguished colleague from California. While we might not agree on all that is appropriate within the purview of the Department, we do agree on being effective stewards…

I, once again, wish to extend my thanks to my colleague from California. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues across the aisle to support this commonsense, bipartisan measure, H.R. 1282, as amended, and I yield back the balance of my time…

I am a big fan of peace and stability, and I advocate loud and vociferously on behalf of regime change.

We can have a regime change if we will strictly enforce sanctions. We have never been willing to do that.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 276. ____________________

During this National Police Week, I wish to, on behalf of myself and the fine citizens of the Fifth District of Virginia, extend our thank-you. Since 1791, greater than 22,000 law enforcement professionals have given their lives in the…

Over the past days we have heard a great deal of rhetoric as it relates to health care and what the best policy for the United States is. In fact, as we address the Affordable Care Act, which the Democratic Governor of Minnesota referred…

I ask that you join me today as we remember the lives of Jaiden Bartee and Tori Perez, ages 5 and 6 years old, who, as they stood with their mothers waiting for the schoolbus on the morning of March 30, were struck down and taken from this…

We really need to have political solutions. We need strong leadership from the U.N. and other places to be able to bring cogent solutions to what's going on.

I would argue that the best arbiter of the needs of the working world are the local communities.

There is no shame in it, in fact there's honor in it.

Americans can define their own success. And I think that's the key to it.

We can do this. But sometimes, I think, when we try to dictate it from on high at a Federal level, we just miss the target.

justice that is not blind is not justice.

the equal protection clause provides that no State shall deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.