We have a tragedy of significant proportions here. Thirty-two people have died; probably more will.
we have a job to clarify the law if there is not clarity in the law, and we can easily do it.
You can take a regulator to a problem, but you can't make it regulate.
It is an absolute tragedy without any question that 32 people have died, and it is very unlikely that that is going to b...
I think we ought to work on using the authority that we have, as opposed to trying to get additional authority at the Fe...
all those who have known you and worked with you appreciate your service to the Subcommittee, the full Committee, the Co...
I think we ought to respond to the tragedy that happened, and I think we owe it to the families.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do not have an opening statement, but I did not want it to go unnoticed that this might be yo...
Well, I don't want to ascribe any sort of dog whistle to it. He's just wrong. You know, he's flat-out wrong.
He's got a hell of a lot more of a mandate than Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, doesn't he?
Well, he's got a hell of a lot more of a mandate than Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, doesn't he?
I do not think we should be raising taxes, especially when the country is on the brink of a recession.
Let me put it to you this way. I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.
Romney has a much, much tougher map. If you begin, as you should, presuming he'll carry every state John McCain did, the...
First of all, enthusiasm does matter. It really does. But arithmetic matters more. In other words, if you have fewer vot...
If you don't move the needle on jobs in 3.5 years, you will lose your job, Mr. President.
I do believe in data. And I believe in magic and wearing gloves and all that garbage. But the truth, this is still a day...
Without Ohio, it's almost impossible.