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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

This week, in conjunction with Teacher Appreciation Week, is National Substitute Teacher Recognition Week, recognizing the 270,000 men and women who fill in for permanent teachers every day in the United States. Research by the Substitute…

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…

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.

Mr. Speaker, I come humbly to the well today, under the ``E Pluribus Unum,'' to ask that there be swift bipartisan action in reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. VAWA's authorization, of course, lapsed at the end of the last…