Neither Federal stimulus in the form of easy money nor fiscal stimulus in the form of Government borrowing can produce real lasting prosperity.

I think we have to talk about that, and you note that the big programs are the ones that are drawing a larger percentage of the taxpayers' revenue each year, are leading us and accelerating our debt course.

The answer is that you are going to spend--you are asking us to raise the spending limits by changing the Ryan-Murray law so you can spend even more than you agreed to spend 10 weeks ago.

I do not think the plan has worked. I did not believe it would from the beginning.

But 988,000 dropped out of the labor market, and we have got fewer people working today than there were in 2007.

Will the Government of the United States execute the laws established by the duly elected Congress?

It is good that under the leadership of Chairman Macfarlane, and with the support of her four colleagues, the NRC has stabilized.

the court hammered the Commission and Congress and declared it was an absolute violation of multiple requirements of law

excessive regulation at this time of real competition from low cost natural gas... could see a collapse in the future of nuclear power

Wouldn't you agree that the court's decision was a real critique of the failure to act on the congressionally approved Yucca Mountain site?

You are indeed an excellent chairman; work hard, you take responsibility for this.

I would like to see clean nuclear power be used more around the country.

We just have to be careful as we go forward.

We have created a system that requires certainty in punishment, swifter trials, and the result is a very great drop in the crime rate.

I just think it is a huge issue. I hope that you will talk with the President--you are close to him--and begin to push back or pull back from this position that I think is going to be adverse to the health of America.

I would just note, as I watch your statistics, that your prosecutions, total prosecutions of gun crimes declined 5.2 percent this year from last year.

I find it beyond comprehension.

there is common ground

We are the finest military in the history of the world in my opinion.

Our mission is not to get to zero troops at a certain date. Our mission is--and what we have committed to and what we have invested in in blood and resources--a successful outcome. I hope that we do not lose sight of that.

I would certainly agree with the 97 percent as you framed it, that human action has caused more CO2 to be emitted into the atmosphere.

Without any explicit, express authorization from the elected representatives of the American people, under this decision you have made, the Environmental Protection Agency can go into any American's backyard, prohibit their barbecue grill…

It is misleading and just plain incorrect to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate time scales either in the United States or globally.

It is a fair question to ask this morning, what is right and what is wrong with the President's climate agenda.

The truth is that predictions of warming simply have not occurred at the rate the experts have predicted.