Gary Palmer

One thing that the ranking member and I do have a constitutional responsibility to do, and that is vote, and a political responsibility as well.

If you want to see what overregulation of a healthcare system looks like, take a look at Canada.

The people who are responsible for regulating are not people who are trying to mess things up. They're trying to do a good job.

One of things that I saw happening with ICD 10 was--and even made rural healthcare even harder to provide.

I introduced a bill to postpone the implementation of ICD 10 primarily because I grew up in a rural area.

I just think we need a commonsense approach to this.

Does it make sense to continue the practices that we employ now to manage our Federal forests when we've already lost millions of acres?

The only forester in Congress is Congressman Bruce Westerman, who's a dear friend of mine.

When you lock it up, that's neglect, and that's destruction by neglect.

And the State Department is so screwed up in the handling of classified information that if they had wanted to prosecute Secretary Clinton, that they would have had to prosecute 150 State Department people.

So is that acceptable, that 19 people were denied their opportunity to speak?

You said that these activities where literally, these conservative students or newspapers have been confiscated. That's speech, isn't it?

So they could take action? They could go to the university and demand, and the university would be required to comply with that demand not to invite somebody that these students disagreed with?

Do conservative students who pay those same fees have a right to demand that their activity fee not be used to fund speakers or programs with which they disagree?

First of all, I would hate to have one of my children at a college that charges them thousands of dollars in university fees.

So you've got $962,000 in balance?

So I just want to know, does the Treasury take seriously its oversight responsibility to make sure that the people at the State level who are handling Federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, are not abusing those dollars?

I don't like the idea of us having to have hearings like this and then coming back and trying to fix a problem that should never have occurred to start with.

Where was Treasury when you had people driving Mercedes or renting office space in the Taj Mahal?

There seems to be a lack of seriousness and commitment to help the hardest hit homeowners keep their homes.

You have to take seriously what Congress intends.

One of the reasons this really, really bothers me is that we sent out $140 billion in improper payments last year.

I think the whole point of the program was to help people who owned their homes to be able to stay in their homes.

The process is so impossibly complex and cumbersome.

I hope you didn't spend a million dollars on it, because I think for a million dollars I could have gone in there with a sledgehammer and a wheelbarrow.