I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.