
So sometimes you just get caught up in things. Issues become big and an individual becomes a focus of the controversy.
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So sometimes you just get caught up in things. Issues become big and an individual becomes a focus of the controversy.

The problem is your policies. Tax more, spend more, borrow more, regulate more, Obamacare more.

This is catastrophic. This is absolutely one of the most dangerous trends we have seen in some time.

We have created a system that creates a benefit, an increasing benefit when the economy grows, and we do not have enough money coming in both overall and per individual.

I think we are running out of money because it is not actuarially sound, is it?

And the law, of course, requires that. It is just too often not being followed in an effective way.

On the 50th anniversary of the Selma march that is approaching--people were denied systematically fundamental rights as citizens of the United States of America.

the reputation of this great Department is being eroded.

I certainly agree. I am a little surprised it took you that long, but the Attorney General's statement was breathtaking to me.

the failure to defend DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.

It does not say that ICE has an opinion about this, it says they shall be deported.

somebody needs to be asking themselves who is protecting the American worker, the people who are paying the salaries of you, the President and all of us.

Well, and do you agree with Professor Turley that one of the most significant overreaches is the President's Executive actions with regard to amnesty?

We are entering into an utterly lawless system here. Nothing Congress passes, apparently, has the ability to be effectuated in reality.

the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has adopted rules governing its procedures for the 114th Congress. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, on behalf of myself and Senator Brown, I ask…

the person unlawfully here magically, at this moment, becomes eligible to compete against an unemployed American truck driver, and I think that is bizarre.

the common thread that binds all these challenges together, in my judgment, is a Department of Justice that is very deeply politicized.

It is quite different, as I think Mr. Kirsanow points out, to demand your lawful rights as an American and to ask for--insist that civil rights apply to those who enter the country unlawfully to have these benefits.