Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.