This isn't a situation in which we can just do nothing because doing nothing will bring about a situation in which we're forced to make abrupt, draconian, and very painful cuts.

But aren't there countless circumstances in which we benefit from the fact that there is some perhaps minimal uncertainty, the Sword of Damocles effect, in the fact that the courts could step in in a given circumstance? Doesn't that that…

Each of us, when we're sworn in as Members of Congress, are required to take an oath to 'uphold the Constitution and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same'.

I feel so strongly about the fact that we need a balanced budget amendment that I've even written a book about it.

I think that plays in exactly to my point about how Members of Congress, particularly when they understand that the buck stops with them as far as their interpretation of a particular constitutional provision.

The ad, before it went out, was sent out with press releases describing that what the president had said about John McCain was now going to be used to be said about him.

The principle is that we are not going to have an amnesty system that says that people who come here illegally get to stay for the rest of their life in this country legally.

Certainly we have to secure the border. And we talk about people who have been here 25 years, that is the extreme exception... I'm not going to start drawing lines here about who gets to stay and who get to go.

The principle is, we're not going to have an amnesty system that says that people who come here illegally get to stay for the rest of their life in this country legally.

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Unless the resources in our states are developed in the West, our kids are hurt.

I think kudos need to be given. I have seen your wilderness proposals.

We can't have it both ways.

Thank you, Commissioner.