"Well, or maybe the campaign contributors play a role."
"Should we really raise the Social Security age to 70 for those people?"
"We all acknowledge that we have a very large national debt, $13 trillion, an unsustainable situation."
"We now have a situation where the top 1 percent earn more income than the bottom 50 percent."
"About $100 billion a year in taxes are avoided by large corporations and the wealthy by going to tax havens in the Cayman Islands."
"We have got a huge debt. We have got to deal with it."
"Shouldn't we be focusing on creating jobs in infrastructure, stopping the absurdity of importing $350 billion a year of foreign oil?"
"Oversight is one of our most important responsibilities, and this Committee has taken it very seriously."
"The Director has been very open in his efforts to balance the efforts in law enforcement while maintaining the values and the freedoms that we hold dear as Americans."
"It seems to me that where you have separation of powers and you have the chilling effect that an FBI investigation has on a Member of Congress like Curt Weldon, it ought to be handled with the greates..."
"It seems to me that when years have passed, people under investigation ought to be told if the investigation is over."
"I hope we have the same bipartisanship again."
"It is going to affect the communities we live in."
"The Second Chance Act builds on this important work."
"We are going to consider the important issue of how best to ensure that when people get out of prison, they become productive members of society rather than turning to a life of crime."
"It is a great honor for me to have the chance to introduce Sol Rodriguez."
"I apologize for being late."
"It gives me a sense of confidence, when I go home to Vermont."
