Ranking Member Cummings and myself have made the adjustments to live within our means, barely within our means.

the number-one issue of the Department of Transportation's overall Cabinet officer, Ray LaHood, is, in fact, distracted driving.

Shouldn't we ask the law enforcement officials most responsible for protecting and serving those very communities?

The right way to make cuts is to say, where should you cut, and where should you invest?

Every committee has an obligation to use the money wisely.

Nothing in this regulation is going to guarantee that the driver goes to bed and stays in beds and sleeps well for 8 hours.

Despite signed agreements and promises ensuring input from state and local authorities, DHS now intends to move forward in a mandatory fashion.

The administration is putting illegal immigrants ahead of the interests of American taxpayers and unemployed Americans.

Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Mark Warner have both introduced legislation that, among other things, would create a new federal agency.

We look forward to working with these officials and other stakeholders to ensure that the work of the Recovery Board can serve as a template for tracking all government spending.

I was in New Orleans at the beginning of November at a hearing pertaining to the BP oil spill.

The first year of the 112th Congress posed substantial budgetary challenges for the minority of the committee.

I don't think we pay enough attention to Africa as a hotbed of concern that we should.

It is problematic in Nigeria because once you run up against vested interests, those kinds of investigations are often blocked politically.

So to me that is something that--I am not sure whether that will share in the equation, but certainly it brings to light how dependent we are on the funding to be able to mitigate everybody's concerns.

So to me--and you are right, this is the law of the land, and it also was put there for a purpose.

when will be our turn?

Thank you to all of you for being here.