By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice.

As I see it, dating is a product of our entertainment-driven, disposable-everything American culture...Love and romance became things people could solely enjoy for their recreational value.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.