So when you go trampling on the Constitution, you get the full regards of the Constitution.

Mr. Chairman, at this time I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from Ohio (Ms. Sutton).

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, despite all the controversy surrounding this pipeline, I think this is a good opportunity for us to examine some of the claims that the applicant for the Keystone XL…

The Federal Government that is big enough to give to you all of the social justice that you pursue is also big enough to take from you all of the religious freedoms that you have.

I would put it to you that members of your congregations will still be similarly situated, and still be put in the same condition.

I would encourage each of you to consider the possibility that using a secular Federal Government to help advance religious principles... may in both the short run, as we are learning today, and in the long run be unwise.

compensation structures led to misaligned incentives and excessive risk taking, contributing to bank losses and financial instability.

Are you or are you not going to increase the public lands available for hydraulic fracturing?

We are having stealth tax increases, as Mr. Duncan noted, at the pump.

I think America is looking for us here in Congress, and also the Administration, to take the measures to reduce what they pay at the pump.

What I would like to see the Department of the Interior do is say, 'We are going to open up the Bakken oil field in Montana on Federal lands, and allow more energy development.'

Washington loves to talk with flourishes, but generally calls for more bureaucracy as the answer to the problems.

The President's budget asks the men and women in uniform, who have given so much already, to give that much more so that the President might fund more domestic programs.

An honest and valid strategy for national defense can't be founded on the premise that we must do more with less.

This is a cynical gimmick that once more ensures our military, and only our military, is held responsible for what little deficit reduction this budget represents.

The President must understand that the world has always had and will always have a leader.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President released his budget for 2013, which calls for a cut in defense spending, for the first time since 1998, by almost $500 billion. It is clear the President is simply taking resources away from our…

The Afghan National Security Force budget request has been cut by 50% and has been justified by a reduction in the need for front-loaded costs, such as equipment and facilities.