'Stand your ground' laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.

I want to continue to serve as whip of the caucus.

When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

Flint is to the lead issue what Three Mile Island was to nuclear power. People are stepping back and thinking, 'There still is lead in my home?'

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

I enjoy my job, and I will help my state all I can.

Across the VA's system in our state, the wait times are entirely too long on average.

We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

I have always been critical and skeptical of fast-tracking. It is a take-it-or-leave-it approach to trade agreements which really deals members of Congress and their concerns out of the picture.