By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable power.

I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Both my mothers family and my fathers family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so thats the way I see myself.

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

I believe we must protect Medicares guaranteed benefit, and I will oppose any effort to dismantle Medicare and turn it into a voucher system.