Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.