When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

I have been dealing with the minimum wage issue for the last 28 years that I have been in elective office. And when you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. At a time when the American people are still asking the question, where are the jobs, why would we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.