the single best way to find a bomb is through a dog, a bomb sniffing dog.

I find it fascinating that only the TSA seems enthralled with these machines.

As my friends on the other side of the aisle are repeatedly discovering, there just is not enough revenue available from taxing the so-called rich to pay for the size of government that the President desires.

If we are to discuss the issues of fairness, using facts as you propose, what would be your preferred metric to measure fairness and equality?

This failure to respond to the Senate is neither fruitful nor acceptable.

Complexity breeds the perception that the tax system has two sets of rules--one for ordinary Americans and one for those who have access to lobbyists and tax engineers.

Now, I am concerned that it sounds like the administration's definition of a loophole may be different from how the term is generally understood.

the ITC provides a vital tool for U.S. companies that face unfair competition from foreign imports.

I requested specific information from Treasury concerning available cash, taxpayer cash, held at Treasury.

Treasury, unfortunately, seems to think that the Senate's questions come with an option to blow past deadlines and respond, if at all, whenever it chooses.

a thinly veiled attempt to gut a century's worth of environmental laws

What I want to do is get the Border Patrol what they need to secure the border, and they tell me that what they need more than money and people is access. There are enormous swaths of public land that have effectively been ceded over to…

intellectual property is an increasingly important part of our U.S. economy.

Just this morning there was some news that came across the wire that said that the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1 percent. And normally that would be cause for celebration. But, in fact, anything over eight percent, anything near…

We seem to be slowing down, not speeding up. This is not progress. This is very, very disappointing.

If these reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom and it's a day of shame for the Obama administration.

Of course. Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.

the park's new ORV policy has destroyed the economies of the community by limiting or cutting the access to the park.