The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.