To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.
