A crisis is brewing in America that necessitates immediate attention by lawmakers before cases of personal liability reach into the billions of dollars. In recent years, hospitals across the nation have had to alter the traditional role of their emergency rooms to accommodate the changes in need of America's health care system....

On Sept. 11, 2001, people all over the world watched a tragedy unfold on national television as the lives of nearly 3,000 were taken in a very public display. Scenes from that day will live on through the memories and stories of survivors and surviving family members, those who bravely rushed to the scene to give aid, and those who viewed it in horror on their TV screen...

DHS defines critical infrastructure as the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, that are so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, public health or safety, or any combination thereof...

U.S. Rep. Billy Long, R-Missouri, one of the 85 freshman Republicans in the 112th Congress, went to work quickly to address a top campaign priority by securing an appointment to the House Homeland Security Committee...