Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.

As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.