I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I support charter schools--I want to be clear about that--and I support this bill. However, I also believe that families should be able to choose schools within the public system that best…

Thank you, Mr. Reed, for inviting me to speak this evening on this important topic. I don't come here tonight with statistics. I come here with 33 years of experience in law enforcement. I was a cop for a long time before I came to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, there are a few things going on here. One, you have American families working hard every day to juggle their lives to provide for their children and their families. They are trying to make…

There is a lot of misinformation out there about trade and about trade agreements.

I consistently hear from businesses, local chambers of commerce, and farmers in my home state about the need to renew and update TPA.

I received phone calls this past week from sheriffs, from police chiefs from Washington State, very much supportive of fighting crime, and investing in kids.

We all know it's better to prevent a problem than to try and correct it after things have gone wrong.

At its core, this program is designed to improve outcomes for children and families who face the greatest risk for abuse and neglect and a host of other problems that place too many kids far behind on the road of life.

But the MIECHV program, when it was created in 2010, marked the first time there was dedicated federal funding for this purpose.

One of the goals of the new federal home visiting program is to help families and children before problems arise.

It's time to review whether it is really making that hoped-for difference.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I think most of the Members here know that I had a 33-year career in law enforcement prior to coming to the House of Representatives a little over 9 years ago. During that time, I lost good friends and…

I introduced this legislation to help our veterans transition their military skills and expertise into long term civilian jobs.

Do you make a promise to the American people today, another promise, Madam Secretary, that there will be no more delays to the so-called Affordable Healthcare Act?

As many as 5 million Americans have lost their existing healthcare plans.

I think the unemployment rate speaks for itself.

In 2009 the Administration economists predicted that, under the Administration's trillion-dollar stimulus plan, the unemployment rate would never rise above 8 percent, but we all know that is what happened.

Chairman Reichert Announces Field Hearing on Efforts to Prevent and Address Child Sex Trafficking in Washington State

The difficulty we have in trying to convince young people to please leave the streets because of the danger we knew that lurked out there...

I think when you think about 9,000 to 10,000 young people in foster care... we really need to wrap our arms around them.

I saw firsthand in my work, not only in the Green River case, but on patrol when I first started in the early '70s, the tragedy that occurs when young boys and young girls run away from home, leave their dysfunctional homes and end up on…

I think Rescue and Restore could be a similar effort in really eliminating human trafficking.

Today, we are doing what Congress, in my opinion, should do more of, and that is get out of Washington, D.C., and listen to real people who deal with critical issues like we are dealing with today.

I think that is a critical thing for Americans to understand, that it is just not a machine of legislation back in Washington, D.C., with a lot of uncaring, process-oriented people.

Imagine 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 years old and that is your life.