One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.

My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.

Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.