I'm certainly not going to apologize for my dad and his success in life. He was born poor. He worked his way to become very successful, despite the fact that he didn't have a college degree.

I have worked with drug supply chain stakeholders in crafting legislation to develop a national system to better protect our Nation's drug supply against counterfeiting threats.

I am supportive of this proposal, and I hope to see its inclusion in this year's user fee reauthorization.

I want to acknowledge how you have been working in a bipartisan manner on the reauthorization of this.

That is why I introduced my bill. I hear you. We need a national standard. I am just trying to figure out how we are going to manage it.

I think the RxTEC proposal represents a consensus of a lot of the stakeholders. It does agree on a one-size-fits-all for the country and not 50 different State approaches.

There are at least a couple of functions played by our tax system.

We tend to tax the little guys with taxes that are hard to attribute.

It is more opaque. You cannot really see what is happening.

In the end it is the little guy who pays for it.

I think that if the economy continues to be weak, that something like that x-tax should get broad bipartisan support.

It is totally unacceptable.

That is where there is frustration just steaming out of our ears.

There are a lot of good federal employees who work hard. They're patriotic, and they're frugal with their money. But when you see this widespread abuse of money, and then you as the former administrator said, 'Well, they were entitled to…

For the President of the United States to look the American people in the eye and say, well, we got a pay freeze in place while you are getting bonuses and going on trips is totally unacceptable.

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. They're instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.

This administration's attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by the constitution. The right to bear arms is so plainly stated, is so unambiguous. The liberals have a hard time challenging it directly.

I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help to protect us and provide for our safety, but I want our law-abiding citizens likewise to have the right to purchase and use a weapon for hunting and other purposes.