Our timing is right... The election results are still fresh in the minds of my Republican colleagues and they don't want to go through this again.

We will have health care reform in America.

Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was real wisdom in the decision of our forefathers in writing a Constitution that gave us an opportunity to grow as such a diverse nation, and we should never forget it.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.