Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.