Speeches

HOPWA is an investment. Its not money down the drain. When we keep people in stable housing, their health improves, they adhere to their medications and they stay out of the emergency rooms it saves us all money.'

If we're not going to appropriate money to the commuter railroads to help alleviate the burden of this unfunded mandate, the least we can do is give these railroads the additional time required for full implementation. My amendment ensures proper impl

"If we want to make America strong, safe and fiscally sound, we should be investing in education, infrastructure, and research." "

"After twenty three NHL Playoff games, ten overtimes and sixty four goals, the Chicago Blackhawks have won their second Stanley Cup in the last four years!" '

"We cannot ban abortions after 20 weeks, first because its unconstitutional, and second because we cannot know the individual situation of every woman." '

At a time when indictments and allegations of ethics violations of our elected leaders have become all too common, now more than ever we must use every tool at our disposal to fight corruption. Unfortunately, the federal government is currently preventing numerous states from using one of the most important tools we have to fight cronyism, corruption and waste. '

By ending the arbitrary 34,000 bed mandate for immigration detention, we can cut spending and do the right thing... Were spending more than $5 million a day to detain immigrants, 45 percent of which have no criminal record...We have the power to change a policy that does nothing but waste the taxpayers money and cause undue hardship to immigrant families across the country. '

"As we sit down to address our fiscal woes, everything has to be on the table, including the trillion dollars we spend each year in tax expenditures." '