The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.

We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon.

We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.

I want to recognize and thank all Guard members for their service. It means so much to our state and our country.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.

I got into politics when I was 12, back when George H. W. Bush was running against Michael Dukakis. We did a mock election in my social studies class, and I remember how so much of what was thought of as liberal made sense to me.