Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.