We do ourselves a disservice by not recognizing, on a bipartisan basis, the gravity of the situation we face.

This is about our country. This is not about party. It is not about defending a President or attacking a President, it is about our country.

Your sincerity can't be questioned. And I think all of us salute you and honor you for us.

I often find myself offering respectful disagreement with my Chairman, so I'd like to heap praise on him for his leadership on the dyslexia issue.

NATO is not a charity project for our European allies. NATO is strongly in the interests of the United States of America.

Vladimir Putin is no Richard Daley. Richard Daley didn't have his political opponents assassinated.

maybe we could make a smart investment in IT to make the IRS more efficient

most of that seems to have been permissionless, although I do worry... about what permissionless innovation might do there

It seems to me that the whole idea of this hearing was trying to figure out how we respond to the spirit and letter of Article VI, you know, light regulation, heavy regulation, permissive innovation and all that.

when we can see ahead of time that there're going to be real problems with space debris... doesn't that handcuff us a little bit on permissionless innovation?

Well, that is a number worth GAO's attention.

given the, you know, unceasing war on the IRS and the constant drumbeat about Lois Lerner...

Well, that is a lot of people. And your budget has gone down almost by $1 billion.

the tax gap is estimated at about $450 billion, and that's just ----

Mr. Speaker, well, that part of the Affordable Care Act has actually improved the quality of service. There are other things in the Affordable Care Act, such as funding for education of more providers, more doctors and nurses, and other…

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Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from California for organizing the Special Order so that we could actually discuss some of the problems with going forward without a CBO score, without knowing what we are doing. Certainly, it is not an…

Shortly after the Affordable Care Act passed and went into effect, a young lady approached me in a store--she was a clerk in a store--and said: Bobby, don't let them repeal ObamaCare because my son is alive today because of ObamaCare. I…