Mike Ross

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.