It would be unwise to tie the President's hands in legislation when it is impossible to know how the situation will deve...
We should seek to keep it. And, we should still believe that diplomacy might yet produce an ultimately peaceful resoluti...
Most of the Arab governments are deeply suspicious of the Ahmadinejad government in Iran.
What it seeks to do, I think, is end the corrosive part of this process and then provide an opportunity to put the publi...
the system is corrosive. And it is that corrosion of the system that affects our democracy.
Walter Jones, thought by many to be, as I believe, the conscience of the House of Representatives.
I want to thank my cosponsors: Chellie Pingree, who is the former head of Common Cause in Maine and knows this issue bac...
This bipartisan effort is something States have already done, and now it has put the focus on Congress.
It creates a level playing field. It allows for some support for the high cost of broadcast TV.
I think the panelists behind us, the architects of the concept in the bill, will be better able to explain...
I think, number one, 73 percent of Americans feel that Members of Congress are unnecessarily influenced by special inter...
These are bills--and I know that the committee is aware of this--that other thoughtful Members like John Tierney and Dav...
It is to create an opportunity for a person in a district that maybe doesn't have the contacts...
What I meant by that was the entire approach ends up being corrosive. What is it corroding? It is corroding the democrac...
It is completely unacceptable to the public on the outside. It allows for too much influence, whether we choose it or no...
Would we be struggling this week to figure out how to put together a health-care bill?
Seventy-three percent of Americans believe that campaign contributions from the banking industry have played a major fac...
Again, as you look at this both in terms of the amount of money that you would be able to raise in a primary and then as...
