"What I have found is we do not do that a lot, and, consequently, we have created a huge problem on the spending side."
"every dollar that we spend right now on this stuff that goes out improperly or is mismanaged is a dollar we have to borrow."
"An informed citizenry is the hallmark of American representative democracy."
"I think one of the geniuses of this bill is that it really does articulate very well those limited exceptions and articulates how limited they are and need to be."
"But even with a law that we have here or the bill that we have here, that's not an issue. Would you agree with that?"
"I generally am not for extending Federal power. But I think this when it comes to constitutional issues and I really think this is an area where the Federal Government does have a legitimate need to i..."
"I've never gotten a complaint about a short hearing."
"It's absolutely critical that people have confidence that the vote count is accurate, it reflects the will of the people."
"we should be equally outraged when anyone makes an attempt to deny the American public their hard-fought-for and well-defended right to elect for themselves the representatives that they want."
"A regulatory cost is just a hidden cost that weighs disproportionately heavily upon low-income families."
"I introduced a bill to postpone the implementation of ICD 10 primarily because I grew up in a rural area."
"One of things that I saw happening with ICD 10 was--and even made rural healthcare even harder to provide."