A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more.

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.

As long as I am in the Congress, I will continue to fight for and defend our sacred values.

President Obama has already ended Medicare as we know it.

I don't want to continue to fund Obamacare.

I think Tom Frieden, the CDC director, is a good man, is a good doctor and, I think, basically has done a good job.