it is our recommendation at this point that this is the best we can think of, in terms of how to go forward.

I think the Fourth Amendment says that you can't seize people's money without probable cause.

You hold the public's trust, and you are eroding that trust.

I think that is absolutely justifiable. I think the American people's faith in the government has been eroded.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to start by thanking Chairman Simpson and Ranking Member Kaptur for their hard work on this important legislation. My amendment transfers $2.2 million from the Department of Energy, Departmental Administration…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 4, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $2,241,850)''. Page 50, line 21, after the…

It is malicious. It is wrongdoing. It is criminal. Our government is acting as the criminal here.

With the cascade of scandals that have arisen in the Federal Government and the level of incompetence and outright wrongdoing over the last 5 years, I am not surprised that Mr. Taylor has lost some faith in the government.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday in Hanoi, under a giant bronze statue of Ho Chi Minh, the President of the United States announced that he was formally rescinding our country's decades-long prohibition on the sale of military equipment to the…

The only permanent solution to this is a job. That is it.

America used to be called the Land of Opportunity, you know, where everybody had the opportunity to get a job.

That is where we can make a difference, in those homes, in those children's lives.

We all agree on early education and intervention, breaking the cycle.

You can educate people from now until doomsday. You can get everybody a Ph.D. But if, when they get out of school, there is no job for them, you haven't really accomplished much.

If we want to solve this problem, we have to get our economy growing again.

Impeachment is a penalty, a punishment, and you're exactly right it is, it is a punishment.

The notion that you can only impeach someone who commits an actual violation of the criminal code is nonsense.

Now who here on this panel can look at me with a straight face and tell me that that is the best way we can use our limited resources?