We're not going to get out of the debt by lowering the military spending alone.

You're having to make choices between the retired healthcare costs and fighting this war and future wars.

I want to be generous, but I want it to be sustainable.

If there was ever a need for an outside special counsel, it is now.

Vice President Biden was on TV morning, noon, and night urging the Bush administration to appoint a special counsel in the Valerie Plame case.

there is no doubt in my mind that if the shoe were on the other foot, you and everybody on that side would be screaming that I have to appoint a special prosecutor

it would be better off for the country if you would pick somebody that we all could buy into

the very people who are in charge of a White House that I believe has compromised national security unlike any time in recent memory

I think you would be doing the country a great service to appoint someone new that we all could buy into.

Do you think it was a good thing to have a special counsel in the Jack Abramoff case?

I want to thank my friend from Georgia for yielding to me tonight. I think our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are in denial about deficits and debt. What it means--I put the debt clock right here in front for everyone to see…

Mr. Speaker, we keep hearing consistently that somehow a tax that isn't a tax is now considered a tax, so the notion of recapturing overpayments from health care subsidies should not be considered a tax. It should be considered being…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 679 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 679 Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it…

House Resolution 679 provides for consideration of H.R. 436, a bill to repeal the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices enacted as part of the President's health care law. It also provides for a structured rule for consideration of…

Mr. Speaker, I find it quite interesting and almost hilarious that my friend to the left would talk about tax increases when in fact embedded in this health care bill is $123 billion in new taxes on property owners. Really? $123 billion of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the remaining time. My assumption is my friends to the left truly believe if you say it often enough, it might become true. Even if it doesn't become true, if you say it often enough, perhaps someone watching…

Mr. Speaker, last Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed House and Senate Republicans' concerns by finally acknowledging that the Overseas Contingency Operations, a fund used to support troops in combat, will be subject to the sequestration…

I thank my colleague. Mr. Speaker, I think something has gone overlooked here today, which is that this is a bill that has bipartisan support. So often back home, the folks want us to do things that have bipartisan support. We've seen…