I am trying to get to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
Today, our Nation is entering its ninth day--the ninth day of House Speaker John Boehner's government shutdown.
I deeply regret the fact, going back to 'The Crucible,' that you are going to be pilloried here today.
Speaker Boehner has refused to allow the House to vote on a clean continuing resolution that would end the shutdown.
Even worse, our country is rapidly approaching the debt-ceiling deadline of October 17th.
I have seen a lot of things as a Member of Congress over my 17 years, but I have never seen a committee chairman tell th...
I represented a number of people, and they--when they got a notice of audit from the IRS or they got certain letters fro...
October 1st was a historic day for our country, not because Speaker Boehner shut down the government but because it was ...
Instead, he is allowing a small group of Republican extremists to pursue their ideological crusade to repeal the Afforda...
I did not come to the Congress to throw Mr. Labrador's constituents under the bus, and I'm not throwing mine under the b...
This is the law.
I guarantee you. I bet everything I've got, except my wife and kids, that if you put this order forward with a clean, a ...
You err on the side of opening up government.
If they had such a problem with it they probably -- they could have challenged it, I guess, in the Supreme Court on that...
They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate.
You've got to -- let's keep our government open, number one, and let's pay our debts.
We're supposed to keep the government open and we're supposed to pay our debts.
Negotiate over what? See, that's the question.
