We passed a bill... loaded down with pork-barrel projects.
most of it was not for purposes of reducing spending. It was for moving money around for different priorities.
Members of Congress going to jail, corruption of the appropriations process.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It has been very helpful.
And the last effort did not meet that constitutional requirement because?
the budget does not decrease overall, and the spending does not decrease overall.
Whenever someone proposes giving the President this kind of line-item veto authority, the examples they give are like mo...
I think there is a concern, at least among some of us in the Congress, that we need additional detention space.
The whole point there is the deterrent effect of detention.
I think it is really important that not Department of Homeland Security but somebody outside the Department make that ev...
It is not secure yet, and the first line of defense are the Border Patrol agents.
I was disappointed that the only mention in the conference report of this is a report that I had asked to be done.
the absence of any provision in the CWA that obligates Congress to approve a separate Act to declare what it has already...
I think the American people need to know whether we will begin withdrawing in 2011 and conditions are ripe for that, or ...
When conditions on the ground have decisively begun to change for the better; that is when our troops should start to re...
General McChrystal, please explain why your new strategy and the many additional troops you will receive can bring succe...
Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.
General McChrystal, does the current plan for the surge of forces ensure that arriving units will have all the vehicles,...
