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.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

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.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.