I for one would not be in favor of cutting this agency from what the President has asked, which is still sort of bare bones.

I would hope that if Congress wants to bring its approval rate above its current levels that we would instead authorize you to continue your program for high-cost areas.

The impression has been left, and I think Ileana Ros-Lehtinen made this, that we didn't criticize Morsi's departure from democracy but we are criticizing Morsi's departure.

the Pakistanis are hated in Afghanistan by all sides to a remarkable degree

I mean, I do think we have to engage the best we can to go after because I think the comments that were made are real.

Let's not stiff arm our friends. That's a bad policy.

I think what we're going to do here is have a little bit of permanent oversight on anybody getting any new IT systems.

You're going to regulate the rain runoff on small fishing vessels.

we ought to make it statutory. And if you're doing it anyway, we ought to just make it legal

This is just one of those things that really shows this is going back to the 1700s, and you should not need the highest classification license to drive a cable ferry.

It is unacceptable to have an important part of the health insurance program, this Web site, not work the way it should.

Let's fix this Web site. Let's not fixate on the Web site, let's fix the Web site.

It just seems a little bit crazy to me.

They have the data that says how cold the water is, and if the water's not very cold, then you can be in it longer.

But one program manager, Mr. Schwartz, put it to me this way.

I look forward to writing legislation and working with Ranking Member Garamendi and other members of the subcommittee on that effort.

I look forward to combining these ideas with information presented by our witnesses today to form the basis of bipartisan legislation.

I want to see us continue to work with Egypt, not abandon Egypt. I think that would be a horrible mistake.