So even if they choose not to offer telephone service, that doesn't lead you to the conclusion that we ought to eliminate the rules for all telephone services.

Bill Young, obviously, felt those responsibilities deeply. He carried them out for an extraordinary length of time--almost 43 years.

So how can you justify people from stopping at a rest stop or a turnout on a State highway?

I hope that all of us here really are here also because we want to ensure that these treasures are fully supported and receive the budgets and the attention that they deserve.

the partisan rhetoric just doesn't help a whole lot with that.

Instead, it seems the other side wants to go to a one-party system of input by shutting us out...

I would remind my friend from New Hampshire that three times the House voted to fund the government.

I hope that you will address as quickly as possible their answers and their concerns.

If you want efficiency, then you go to a dictatorship, but if you want to have freedom and liberty, you have our form of government.

This is a Kafkaesque moment, and the solution isn't to have a hearing to pillory someone for doing his job.

A government that is big enough to give you something is big enough to take it away.

This is the first time that access has been denied to open air malls, open air monuments.

I will be issuing a subpoena to you before the close of this hearing...

We are the ones suffering. We are hardworking Americans working paycheck to paycheck. Something like this can destroy us.

Your obligation, according to what you told Congresswoman Noem, your obligation was to protect property, correct?

I'm embarrassed by the committee process in this hearing, this sham of a hearing that we're having today.

This is worse than fiddling while Rome burns. This is fanning the flames while Rome burns.

I would remind my colleagues that incessantly repeating a falsehood does not make it a truth.