And for those who have argued where's your agenda, where's your agenda, it's being rolled out on a daily basis.

But there's ways to do it, and my opinion is that they took the wrong path.

There's ways to do it. And my opinion is that they took the wrong path.

It's something that's important to keep this economy coming.

What does $100 buy you? Two tanks of gas, if you're lucky? Is that the best we can do in Washington, D.C., and then say adios, voters, see you in November? We've taken care of the problem? Well, we certainly have not.

We have passed legislation time and time again, with Democrats blocking it. But that was history. Now this is the future. And we need to move forward.

Isn't it curious, as you drive around your hometown, that all the prices on all the pumps seem to go up at the same time and come down at the same time?

We are 65 percent dependent on foreign oil. Places like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela, whenever they decide to turn the spigot or raise the prices, our consumers suffer.

The prices at the pump don't reflect our addiction to oil, they reflect a failure in leadership by this White House.

As we drew closer to the day of the vote, it stuck me as odd that we had never asked for a national intelligence estimate, an NIE.

I think that if Mr. Tenet felt the intelligence was bad or misleading, he should have resigned over it.

Totally unusual. The agencies understand that if we're about to take a major military action or even consider one, you bring all your intelligence agencies together and say, what do you know, and what do you know for sure before we put our…

This is not about personalities. It's not about somebody's ego. It's not about racial profiling. It's trying to make this place safer and working with the people who try to make it safer.

Vote the issues. That's all I'm going to say.

Listen, my legs are gone. They're never going to grow back, and if this gives me a platform to talk about those issues that are important to people of this district, to talk about education, to talk about health care, then that's fine.

Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has…

I am concerned about the national security implications of the deal and called for an immediate moratorium.

The VA had made management efficiency claims which make up over $1 billion in this year's budget, but the [Government Accountability Office (GAO)], at least, says haven't been and can't be proven.