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Does that not seem like a perversion of the American economic system to you?

Do not do what is always easy; just do what is right.

I think many of us took a step back, step to the side, and were either aghast or were trying to struggle with the Constitution or court precedent to find out what the basis of that was.

What I can confirm, having spoken to him about it, is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time that the United States took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions.

Times have changed, which is why we are holding this opportunity about the challenges ahead and implicitly the opportunities.

I agree with the gentlewoman: ESSA was a landmark bipartisan achievement. Unfortunately, the Obama administration's partisan implementation of it is what brings us here today. Instead of choosing to take every opportunity to work with us…

I finally realized what is happening here. What the other side considers ambiguous is really flexibility. I think that is the difference here. But, let's be clear. What we intended through ESSA was flexibility for the States. Nowhere in…

I would only comment that the comments made to the rule in this regard--the ones I have seen--were almost all bad. They were negative against this rule, except for maybe a few groups. I would like to yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from…

Democrats intend to honor that oath by opposing the President's dangerous and unconstitutional Muslim ban.

The Executive Order issued nearly 2 weeks ago by the President is a radical departure from these principles and I call upon him to rescind this order immediately.

I thank the ACLU and other non-governmental organizations that went to work immediately to challenge the Constitutionality of the Executive Order and for their success in winning temporary stays of the order enjoining the Trump…

The independence of the Federal judiciary, and its role in providing a check on Legislative and Executive branches, is one of the crown jewels of American democracy and is indispensable to our system of government.

As a Member of the House Judiciary Committee, I find it outrageous that the President has launched yet another vicious personal attack against a sitting Federal judge simply because the judge issued a ruling that displeased the President.

When he said on national television he wasn't proud of it, he was embarrassed by it, I do believe that he expressed himself straight from his heart to the American people.

What we're seeing here is hostile action, belligerent action being supported by or taken by the Iranians, and we're just not going to put up with it anymore.

Well, look, the President of the United States has every right to criticize the other two branches of government. And we have a long tradition of that in this country.

I expect he's always going to continue to be candid with the American people. But what you have in this President is an absolute determination to reengage the world.

You see a president who is in the promise keeping business.