The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

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

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

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

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

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.