My own experience with BRAC as a mayor and governor convinced me that there has got to be a better way to rationalize excess infrastructure.

Now to kind of segue into sequester, because it is related to the ability to complete this infrastructure program...

I think the military is assessing that you may have 15 to 20 or even 25 percent of excess infrastructure.

That would be very helpful.

Since 2003, the Army has reduced its energy consumption by 22 percent.

I hope that we might have a full committee discussion sometime about the best way to rationalize excess infrastructure.

this is a big success story and we need to recognize you for what you do and encourage other agencies to do more of it.

I think Senator Ayotte's concerns about optimizing infrastructure to today's force structure if today's force structure is not optimal to the need is an important concern.

Mr. Speaker, like the previous bills, this is a dam project in which the license was issued, but for various reasons, the timeline has expired or is about to expire, and this would give it up to an additional 6 years in which to get the…

Mr. Speaker, this bill, like the others before it dealing with dams, deals with a dam in Alleghany County, Virginia, the Gathright Dam project. It, too, was given a license. It, too, for various reasons amongst the agencies in the company…

What limiting principle could stop the President from granting, for example, capital gains tax amnesty?

are not partisan issues but rather American issues that touch the very core of our system of government.

One letter alone suspended the application of eight key provisions of ObamaCare.

To delay the terrible consequences of ObamaCare until after the next election.

If you're not sure what that limit is, you shouldn't come to us, the United States Supreme Court, you should go to the United States Congress.

the one way that I think Congress can and perhaps should compel that is with the power of the purse.

Yet the current Administration has unilaterally sought to rewrite the law, not by working with the people's duly elected representatives.

The mere fact that past Presidents have done stuff and Congress didn't object does not make it constitutional, right?