Todd Akin
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
Sociologists, psychologists, and other experts can give us all sorts of technical explanations, but we all know from experience that kids are best off when they have a mom and a dad.
So part of my work was just an educational job of bringing congressmen up to speed that we had this power.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
Raising taxes as the economy begins to take off makes no sense.
One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.
Now, there are people who want to use public money to destroy embryos, and they talk about this bill as being a good first step.
Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
It just seems to me we do not want to destroy the businesses and farms.
It is our responsibility, morally and legally, to stand with Taiwan against Communist aggression and unsound Chinese law.
It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as they choose.
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
It has been brought on us by activist judges who have chosen to ignore the will of the people and instead redefine marriage for all Americans.
Instead, this amendment simply defines what marriage is, the union of one man and one woman.
In today's meeting, we see further vindication for the policies of President Bush, which have ended a vicious dictatorship and brought freedom and hope to millions.
In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.
In recent decades I believe there have been no more stirring or inspiring words to encourage those of us who believe in protecting unborn life than these.
In light of this mounting problem, it may become necessary to restore the confirmation process by adjusting the rules in the Senate.
I will continue to work in Congress to reign-in the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional function of applying the law, not legislating from the bench.