Press Release

Today’s announcement of a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement marks the start of a domestic review process.

I join in thanking Secretary Duncan for his service to our country. Under his leadership, the Department of Education has undertaken an ambitious effort to raise standards, promote innovation, and bring hands-on STEM learning into the classroom.  

“According to the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report released today, our economy gained 118,000 private sector jobs in September, making it the sixty-seventh straight month of private sector job growth. 

This afternoon, the House and Senate received a letter from the Treasury Department providing notice that the extraordinary measures employed to avoid a default on or debt will be exhausted on November 5.

I know [Majority Leader McCarthy] doesn't want us to lose jobs. I know he's quoted as saying that the people's voice ought to be heard. 

This is my 35th year in the Congress of the United States. I don't know that I voted against, prior to this year, either a defense appropriation bill or defense authorization bill. 

Yesterday’s comment by Chairman Chaffetz of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that there is no evidence that Planned Parenthood broke any laws provides yet another reason why Congress should not create a select committee to investigate that organization, which three House standing committees are already examining closely without finding any wrongdoing.  

Majority Leader McCarthy’s comments Tuesday evening on the link between the creation of the Select Committee on Benghazi and partisan political attacks against former Secretary Clinton were both disturbing and revelatory.