Jim ramstad

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws...

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism...

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.