Wipe the board clean. Set aside your pre-conceived ideas on this. Get everyone in a room, all of the agencies in a room, and come up with a strategy to deal with Iran's role in our hemisphere.

What is the practical impact of having a year and a half worth of litigation that has been undone?

Mr. Speaker, last Thursday, the President's plans were revealed to cut almost 80,000 army troops and 20,000 marines. This action will weaken our military's ability to protect us from increasing global threats. This decision is another…

Mr. Speaker, the Constitution gives Congress the responsibility of providing for a common defense. The defense cuts that occur in 2013 as a result of sequestration undermines this constitutional duty. General Ray Odierno, the Army Chief of…

I would not hesitate for 1 second to have any member of my family, someone I cared about, appearing before her, because I know she would be fair and apply the law as it should be applied.

So from a South Carolina perspective, this is a nominee that we all can be proud of, a lot of bipartisan support.

Mr. Speaker, all around the Hill today, you will see Members of Congress wearing a red button, ``1,000 Days,'' a reminder that it has been 1,000 days since the United States Senate has passed a budget for the United States of America…

Mr. Speaker, today is day 1,000; 1,000 days since the Senate Democrats last passed a budget. To put that in perspective, I asked my Twitter followers and my Facebook friends to tell me what they've done in the last 1,000 days. I'd like to…

Mr. Speaker, last Friday retired Army Master Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr., a recipient of the Medal of Honor, died at the age of 66. Master Sergeant Baker was a native of Davenport, Iowa, before relocating to South Carolina. My thoughts and…

It was -- it was really touching. And to -- for her to be there with Jeff Flake and the cheers, obviously, our hearts and prayers continue to go out to her.

My advice is either enforce the rule or regulation as written or change it but selecting it in some States and not others will undermine respect for rule of the law.

I thank the gentlelady from the District of Columbia and the gentleman from Missouri.

If you do not like the law, change it, but to ask Mr. Jarvis, Chief Lanier, the Capital Hill Police who all have very difficult jobs to also have to decide which laws to enforce and which ones not to.

I think Americans are going to have to ask themselves are they better off now than they were $4 trillion ago?

And frankly, Anderson, the biggest point of the speech for me, it was irresponsible for him not to recognize the dire circumstances our country is in because of the debt.

Yes, no one should get tax breaks and subsidies, and a lot of us for years have been trying to get President Obama, first Senator Obama, to go with a low, simple flat rate and take out those subsidies and loopholes.

there are not protestors that are Republican or Democrat in their judgment; there are not laws that are Republican or Democrat; there are not crime victims that are Republican or Democrat. It is just the law.

Oh, Anderson, he said a lot of wonderful things. And it would be wonderful if it was true.