Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...

I wasn't lying when I said I'd follow you out of this place. I just can't figure out why you want to take me with you.

There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.