No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

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.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

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.