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I believe we can and should use this as an opportunity to address these problems.

The root of our spending problem is the government's major health care programs.

The commonly repeated notion that questions surrounding spending and the debt limit are Congress's and Congress's alone to answer is, to put it mildly, a case of false advertising on the part of the Obama administration.

I put out a penny plan that would take care of the deficit in 2 years and result in a balanced budget.

Now, we do not know what that means--what they mean by a 'clean' increase.

I think this is a manufactured crisis, again, because we did not work on it yesterday.

Americans deserve better.

What is at stake is too big for that.

I may own my home, but if someone demands joint ownership agreement of my home that is a substantial reduction of my rights and private property.

When you have Federal agents that are acting in direct conflict of the law and they are doing what I consider extorting something as precious as water rights out of private citizens, well, how would we expect those citizens to react?

If the BLM or the Forest Service have a concern about groundwater then go talk to the State engineer and whatever he or she says is what everybody lives with.

What an ultimate act of hypocrisy to condition a Federal permit on violation of a State water law for which you really don't have that.

There is nothing more American than the family farm or the family ranch, and it is something that we want to protect.

I appreciate the committee holding a hearing on these bills, very good bills, and I am cosponsor of one of them.

The definition of ``farce'' is: a foolish show, mockery, a ridiculous sham. Now, this Head Start funding bill and cry for providing a head start for our low-income children is indeed a false start at this 22 percent sequestration level…

If anything shuts down, Congressman Bishop, we can manage this on our own.

I thank you so much. You are welcome to stay there as long as you want to.

This bill simply would allow that process to move forward.