"It has had a negative impact on the ability to grow the economy."
"This is one of the examples, again, where overregulation and the abuse of consent decrees does great harm to low-income people."
"you want that transparency and that accountability to the voters, which is denied them when they are under a consent decree"
"As tragic as the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is, the deaths of so many other people, not citizens of the United States, as a result of having access to firearms provided by an agency of t..."
"It was an important issue to President Obama in July of 2010. He signed a bill, the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act, because it is a drain on our resources."
"where lawmaking and appropriating is taking place outside of elected government, that it could deny people their right to representative government."
"Did one of our colleagues on the other side say that she had never seen economic growth of 3 percent?"
"I applaud the President for taking our national security threats seriously and for responding in a serious way."
"My Democratic colleagues cast many of the things that are in this budget as cuts when in fact, they should really be talking about savings."
"That is a bad policy. Wouldn't you agree with that?"
"It is the only path."