The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Nobody wants to buy a $60, 000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90, 000 for an electric sports car.

Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22.

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.