You can't snap your FINGERS, and SUDDENLY HALF of CONGRESS is WOMEN.

The constitution vests the power of declaring WAR in Congress; therefore no offensive EXPEDITION of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a MEASURE.

The REASON given by the President in asking CONGRESS to declare WAR against Germany is that the GERMAN government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without NOTICE, American ships and destroys American lives.

During my first TERM in Congress, I signed a PLEDGE that I will take no more earmarks and I've been FAITHFUL to that pledge.

To this DAY, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 MILES of shelved books, her closest FRIENDSHIPS are cataloged in that library. They are as MUCH the VALUE of work to my mom as is the work itself.

I'm NEVER running for OFFICE. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and FLOATING on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to TAKE both of them.

If we are to CHANGE AMERICA, we MUST change the United STATES Congress.

We need to send a message to Congress and the PRESIDENT that we want them to TAKE the ACTIONS that are needed to preserve climate for YOUNG people and future generations and all life on the planet.

Whether we like it or not, MEN have more of the offices, more of the HIGHER jobs, more of the SEATS in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to UNDERSTAND how to USE it.

My PARENTS both were doing the Civil Rights MOVEMENT, were very INVOLVED with the civil rights to Congress. And my FRIENDS' parents were as well.

My CHALLENGE to members on both SIDES of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to SAY that we have a dead U.S. AGENT; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.

I'm just SAYING the producers and people who work on MUSIC are getting left out - that's when it STARTS getting criminal. It's like you're working hard, and you're not receiving. In any other business, people would be standing before Congress. They have antitrust LAWS against this kind of behavior.

One thing I want to do is create something called RING Around Congress. It would be a STATE deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field TRIP, will go and JOIN hands around Congress and GIVE the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

It is not SECRET here in CONGRESS we have not had the discipline in many instances to KEEP our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the FUTURE that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.