Rep. Trent Franks (AZ) published an op/ed in Politico today. Read the following excerpt: Weakness invites danger. It’s as true for the United States today as it was in the ’70s. The Obama administration’s urgent insistence to ratify the New START treaty with Russia during a lame duck session – notwithstanding that Russia [...]  More

Rep. Eric Cantor (VA) and Rep. Peter Roskam (IL), Co-Chairmen of the House Republican Israel Caucus, wrote the following op/ed for Politico today. Please see and excerpt of "A Chance to set the record straight": Tuesday's White House summit between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provides an opportunity for the [...]  More

U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, a member of the Iran sanctions conference committee, issued the following statement regarding the announcement that Congress will miss the May 28 deadline to produce a final version of Iran sanctions legislation: On April 22, 2010, the House voted 403 – 11 to instruct conferees to complete their work on Iran sanc [...]  More

Rep. Tom McClintock (CA) delivered a response to Mexican President Calderon's remarks yesterday. See and excerpt and video of those remarks below:   I rise to take strong exception to the speech of the President of Mexico while in this chamber today. The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereig [...]  More