Through a respectful exchange of ideas and emphasis on shared goals, I am confident we can put many of our disagreements behind us to ensure a better future for all Americans.
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.
It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.
It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.
U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this core purpose.
Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients' lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.
As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'
As someone who took an oath to defend this country, I refuse to sit idle until the unimaginable occurs: Iran cheats or simply runs out the clock, and the largest state sponsor of terrorism threatens the United States and its allies with a nuclear weapon.
We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.
In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.
A rising tide lifts most boats. But some boats require patching.
This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.
People are so frustrated by electing people to represent them in Washington, D.C., and having them immediately forget about the Hoosiers they represent.
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent.
One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.
Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.
Most Hoosiers underestimate their ability to effect change.
It's extremely hard for the economy to grow when the workforce is shrinking.
We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.
We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.
