I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

I fully support global commerce.

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.