Steve Kagen: “I believe a nation's budget is a reflection of its values and its priorities.”

The return to transparency in the budget process is welcome, and long overdue.

Thank you to Madam Johnson and subcommittee Chair Frank Pallone for putting together a tremendous bill. Madam Chairman, as a Member who has the honor of representing one of the largest States in the country that has shoreline beyond…

Let me put it in a different perspective, if you will allow me to. It's not about profits. I'm in favor of profits. We have a capitalistic marketplace. I'd like people to be profitable. It certainly beats the alternative of being negative…

for those, like me, who believe in the invaluable resource that is our public schools, it is a bittersweet time in the Green Bay School District. Dan Nerad, the superintendent of the largest public school system in my district for the past…