Editorials

These days in Washington, we hear a lot about our porous borders. Border security is fundamental to national security; it’s true. But while there’s been an excess of hand-wringing about breaches on the southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border, there’s been precious little conversation about the public safety threat originating on the northern side.

The horror of Tucson may be fading from the headlines, but gun violence in Chicago is as prevalent as ever. On any given weekend, a half-dozen Chicagoans lose their lives to guns.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination. As the rhetoric swirls around our growing budget deficit, we seem to have forgotten the importance of this lesson. We can't possibly figure out how to get where we want to be if we can't agree on where we are now.

It’s no secret that the United States faces a budget crisis.

This summer, we’ll all have the regrettable opportunity to watch what is hopefully the finale of Rod Blagojevich’s celebrity circuit – his trial.

One year ago today, I was sworn in to represent Illinois' 5th District in the United States Congress. As I said that night on the House floor, "the people of my district gave me their trust--I can't tell you how much that means to me."

Illinoisans and women in particular owe a great deal of gratitude to Congressman Quigley for his courageous vote to reform our broken health care system.

For nearly three decades, Chicago lawmakers have been working to keep Chicagoans safe by keeping guns off our streets and out of dangerous hands