With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

What a gun does to a person who survives is devastating as well. Whether it`s the surgeries, I had over ten, the years of physical therapy, the emotional and physical scars that you endure and have to come to grips with the fact that you are different.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

In terms of transparency in total compensation, we need to look at what's a reasonable number, and to what extent it's appropriate.

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

The truth of the matter is they are getting paid to do (state) jobs that the public perceives they're committed to 24/7. They accepted the positions knowing what the parameters are.

It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.