More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.