If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western val…

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

I do not expect that this year will be any easier than in the recent past, but I am confident that for the sake of this institution and the congressional budge…