Mr. Speaker, four really quick points. I would say to my friend from Colorado, through the Speaker, that one reason Congress may not enact new laws is that we have absolutely zero confidence they will actually be enforced. Maybe if this…

I will say this, Mr. Speaker. In conclusion, in the oath of citizenship that we require new citizens to take--and I am sure the Speaker already knows this, and perhaps some of my colleagues on the other side may know this as well--but in…

Mr. Speaker, they did not lift a finger. So with all of the ideas I hear my friends talking about, it just makes me wonder: Where were you when you had the House? Where were you when you had the Senate? Where were you when you had the…

Mr. Speaker, the issue in this case actually implicates the very existence of the House. The law is the reason we exist. We do not exist to pass ideas or to pass suggestions. We make law with the corresponding expectation that that law…

I think you are right, I say to Senator McCain. Let's look at what our military leaders say rather than just look at what political people think. General Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a hearing you chaired today…

To build on this, several years ago Russia took by force Crimea. This was not a fair election. It is pretty hard to have a fair election when there is a Russian tank parked in front of your yard. Good luck saying you don't want to go to…

I think it sends a signal that you can't rely upon us. You have two training programs--one by the CIA and one by the Department of Defense. The people trained outside the Department of Defense have been wholesale slaughtered by the Russian…

My guess is, is that there is very few cities anywhere around the size of Flint that are getting that kind of money or that kind of attention to their systems, and I am glad that it is happening.

I personally have hated to see and have spoken out for years against the fact that we have spent trillions over the last 15 years in a failed effort to rebuild the Middle East, and we haven't done enough for our own country.

If people want to do more than just place blame, but if they want to actually try to do something to help not just Flint, but cities all over this country, then I would appreciate if they would talk to me about these bills.

I think everyone should respect the apology that you have offered because I believe that everyone realizes there were mistakes made at every level here, local--the local level, the State level, the Federal level.

A lot of my friends -- I am not relishing. I'm not like ecstatic or taking Trump lightly by any stretch, in fact it's more pride in being able to beat back on that George Wallace-esque xenophobia in November that I'm excited about doing.

But there's also nobody to bring the Republican Party together. It's sure not Mitt Romney.

I believe the Republican Party for all intents and purposes is giving up on winning the White House in 2016.

The states coming up in terms of voting and I didn't like Trump. I'd vote for Cruz.

No one is going to mistake me for a fan of Obamacare or the ACA, without any question.

I have really doubts about Mr. Trump. I think Mr. Trump is not a republican. I don't think he is a conservative. I think his campaign is built on xenophobia, race baiting and religious bigotry. I think it would be a disaster our party.

I think of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, what some have referred to as a death panel, and the ability to ration care into the future.