I introduced the Poverty Statistics Enhancement Act to require the Census Bureau to include the CBO’s methodology in its reporting on poverty in America. This would not eliminate the Census Bureau’s current narrow poverty definition, but it would ensure that Congress can consider both numbers when deciding how to improve welfare programs in America.
About midafternoon, many people gathered at the Methodist Church across the road. There was a large black hearse. I didn’t notice when it got there or where it came from. The old chicken came out of nowhere, “Quick, you have got to move further back!”
I think no matter how old we are, we all have opinions about how kids should be corrected. Let’s be honest: Every kid needs it sometimes. That correction can come from parents, relatives, friends and when I was growing up, even total strangers.
For the first time in decades, Pew Research notes, in the U.S. at least, Christianity has stopped its nosedive as more people begin to see the efficacy, and the rewards, of religious faith and practice.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." (2 Corinthians 1:3-4.)
This month, the president announced his support for the Credit Card Competition Act. At its core, this bipartisan bill would give small businesses the right to choose between multiple credit card processing networks.
To begin this Lenten journey, we must first listen — and find reprieve in the silence thereby entering into a relationship with God. As Pope Leo XIV advised in his Message for Lent 2026, listening and fasting “opens paths towards liberation, making us ready and eager to contribute to building a civilization of love.”
After the Revolutionary War was settled, many colonists thought their nearly decade-long struggle might be over. Far from it. The 13 colonies considered themselves independent entities, even though they were loosely bound together by the Articles of Confederation.
We need a permitting framework that is rigorous but workable, environmentally responsible, and decisive. One that allows critical infrastructure to be evaluated thoroughly and then, once approved, actually built and put into service. And we need this framework today.
Greg and I know how to take off our chore boots, or wipe our feet, when we return inside the cabin, but our dear dog does not. Muddy paw prints decorate the wooden floors.
As the tax filing season begins, Americans are seeing how the Working Families Tax Cuts are providing across-the-board tax relief that promises bigger paychecks and more opportunities to get ahead.
As an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and the longest-serving Native American in the House of Representatives, I see it as my responsibility to educate and spread awareness about Tribal issues to not only my colleagues in Congress, but to all Americans.
For the last couple of weeks, the news has been non-stop about a certain person being missing, perhaps kidnapped. I am saddened that a certain person’s mother is missing, but how many other people have become missing during this time frame? 50? 100? 1,000? I have no way of knowing.
While Democrats seem to think they have found a potent weapon with which to blame Republicans and Donald Trump for rising electricity prices, the facts tell a far different story. No amount of political spin will change those.
Like the frustrated Republicans of a decade ago, today’s Democrats are furious at their elected official for the lack of change. But whereas the right is fighting to return quintessential American values to the fore, these leftists want to ditch those values altogether. Their vision can be summed up in one word: socialism.
