We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.