It appears to me to be biased or motivated from something other than the crime.

I am going to try to focus more on discretionary, just so people understand. The vast majority of our spending is on autopilot, but a lot of us have no understanding of how much the wheels have come off just this year, and this is so…

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for holding this Special Order and talking about this very important subject. The reality is, as we are on that tank from ``Indiana Jones'' that is going off the cliff, we are busy fighting on top of it…

The number has actually been going up fairly dramatically. In the first 7 months just interest carry, just because the increase in interest, went up $108 billion.

Instead of focusing on one case, we should discuss what we can do to improve sentencing, clemency, and other aspects of our justice system for the many thousands of others who do not have the money and connections that Mr. Esformes has.

Actually, if 400, I think, was the baseline number, with the higher interest rates and the amount of borrowing, you could be approaching 600.

As we think about blind justice very often and those scales, we see the statue, the terrifying thing for me for the American people is when it is laser focused on political opponents.

There are also other things going on. People don't realize, it is not just the $2 trillion of excess spending that has to be borrowed, how much of the debt has to be refinanced all the time. You actually have, let's say, $26 trillion of…

CEQ is also working to set up the new Office of Environmental Justice.

H.R. 4141 could impact tribal sovereignty by including a provision that presumes that a tribe disclaims interest in a project if they do not respond within 45 days of receiving an FCC Form.

I think my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been talking publicly about their plans to continue to use must-pass legislation to attack environmental laws, including NEPA, specifically, and the Clean Water Act, like they did…

That is why I support what I call the Buck plan. The Buck plan calls upon Congress, the majority in this case, in every committee to have a subcommittee that is looking at the authorization jurisdiction of that committee and then makes the…

They loathe the former President. They loathe his official actions. They loathe his treaties and his policies and his supporters.

Congressman Buck, one of the best ways to think about this--the budget window we are working on in functionally about 9 budget years, interest is going to be more than all of defense. That is already baked into the cake.

Our two-tiered justice system is such that in my mind we don't have justice because if somebody is being treated differently than someone else, you simply don't have justice.

It is a travesty that we are here on the Esformes' case.

I am in my seventh year. That is the point. If you want to authorize something, like the Judiciary Committee, they should be holding these types of hearings because it is just what you say. The year that I got elected from Arizona, a…

Yes. I am not sure that I knew that detail because I don't think I have seen that happen since I have been in Congress.