We need to continue to work in a bipartisan way toward action.

Leveling the playing field is a matter of basic fairness.

It is also important to note that they avoided partisan processes, like budget reconciliation, that would put the outcome at risk.

Tax revenue comes from the economy and not from Congress.

It makes it a high priority.

It just isn't working. In fact, it is, by most objective accounts, an unmitigated disaster.

Over $5.7 billion went to projects which added NO value to the taxpayers.

The total overall cost of Obamacare so far has numbered in the tens of billions, and we're barely through the first phases of implementation.

I will tell you that you can receive a classified briefing about that.

We need to work even harder and do more on the government reform side of things.

Genuinely good government oversight requires a committee commitment to expose mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse.

We are just asking for the process as it is outlined by regulations and by law to work, and right now it is not.

We live in a dangerous, a chaotic and an unpredictable world.

The mission in Afghanistan that we have, as stated in the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force there, was, of course, to use force against all nations, organizations, and individuals deemed to have been involved in the…

[The Taliban] are not taking territory or meeting any strategic goals that they set out for themselves initially. They are going to take a district and they are going to lose it. They are going to take another district center and lost it…

You feel good about the improvement that's been made over the last 5 years on that front.

I do not know how you fix that. I just think we have to make a change.

Personnel is the number one issue. We have such a broad swatch of responsibility.