I believe that the indecisiveness at the White House has led to a lot of the problems and the challenges that we are facing today.

It's just a matter of the Secret Service upping their game to make sure that they can maintain that every detail matters.

this afternoon I rise in support of this continuing resolution which is now before the Senate. Overall, it is a relatively clean bill that carries forward current levels for discretionary spending and avoids another government shutdown. It…

I want to thank the chairman for yielding and for his continued leadership on this issue of grave importance to our Nation. I support the chairman's amendment because I believe we must do everything we can to defeat this vile enemy known…

shouldn't we emphasize our relationship with our friends, the Kurds, in Baghdad, and the Iraqis, and begin to work with them to turn the tide?

I want your military opinion, but if we embedded a number of Special Forces with the Iraqi military, and they knew that they had access to intelligence from the United States and air support from the United States, wouldn't that encourage…

Would it be in our advantage to, sooner rather than later, encourage the Iraqis to get on the move?

I think it's necessary to blunt the momentum.

I think we owe those who have served and who have suffered to be successful, if we can be successful.

I believe you said earlier that our first priority should be ISIL. Is that correct?

I thank the chairman. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the rule and passage of H.R. 5078, the Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2014. This legislation would stop another unlawful regulatory…

the Justice Department seems bent on money rather than justice, you know, and that is a mistake and the American people pick up on that.

People should not be able, whoever they are, not just financial institutions, should be able to buy their way out of culpability.

Do you understand, Mr. Burns, that Congress has established Yucca Mountain as the depository for nuclear waste? Is that the law of the United States?

I feel we have a lawyer who comes from a little different background.

I understand the chairman and the committee found certain requests from Congress to be improper and have not disclosed certain documents.

I think some of the efforts you made there legally have been criticized in that regard.

I expressed my concern to you about the memo for then Chairman Jaczko authorizing him to assume emergency powers that I think was unwise.