"But I do think that this is the real issue of border security, and a lot of people lose sight of this, that we are in a war with drugs."
"Well, you mentioned fentanyl. It was recently reported that there were three people arrested who enough fentanyl to kill everybody in Toledo."
"I think we cannot ignore this, that there has been a dramatic increase in addiction in the States that have expanded."
"I was in a field hearing at Johns Hopkins Hospital with the former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, and I asked him if we had gone from a war on drugs to a drug with drugs."
"The cost an average would be two times more than a similar project funded solely with local funds."
"The project will have taken 9 to 12 months longer than if it had been a local project."
"This is an issue near and dear to my heart and close to me, particularly with my district."
"We have overregulated ourselves, we are overregulating our infrastructure, and it makes it extremely expensive, much more expensive than it ought to be."
"I think we owe it to the taxpayers to be an A-plus."
"There has got to be better information, in my opinion, that comes out that takes into account these improvements in the economy."
"I do not blame the CBO for all of its failures. But I do think we have got to eliminate the gimmicks."