It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq..

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas..

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged we….

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to….

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years..

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force..

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government und….

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use ….

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq..

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated..

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, ….

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war..

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated..

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed ….

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq..

Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commi….

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there..

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents fam….

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one ….

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to preten….

I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficie….