We want to find out how top officials at the EPA under multiple administrations for more than a decade never verified that a man who said he's a secret agent of the CIA--never verified that he was.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government.

Our neighbors sent us to Washington to find solutions and not to play politics.

This government shutdown is a disgrace. It is a waste of the American people's time.

I agree with the gentleman, by the way, that we should not be in shutdown, that the important work of the EPA and other agencies, we would like to have them back to work as soon as possible.

The critical issue before us is the level of spending, since the level of spending automatically sets the combined level of current and future taxes.

The greater restraint in spending, the greater overall economic growth these nations have had.

It seems to me they are two sides of the same coin, that deficits are taxes.

That is an example of what I like to call McClintock's third law of political physics, which is the more we invest in our mistakes, the less willing we are to admit them.

But even factoring that out, just in nominal terms, 60 percent increase in Federal spending in 4 years is rather breathtaking.

Coolidge, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton all cut spending relative to GDP.

I think that we showed a lot of restraint there.

I think one of the reasons why so many people are getting calls about Obamacare is because there is millions upon millions of dollars being spent on attacking Obamacare.

the Affordable Care Act is a net budget saver, correct?

I believe you said that continuing the sequester... would eliminate 600,000 jobs and reduce GDP by as much as half a percent; is that correct?

This regime is a disgrace and has held the people of Cuba back for so long.

Let me just note that Castro's regime has been a disgraceful example of corruption and repression since day one.

We should be insisting that all of the money that he has stored up in foreign banks be found out and be given to the people of Cuba once this dictator is dead.