"I feel so strongly about the fact that we need a balanced budget amendment that I've even written a book about it."
"The problem is that that power has been abused to the point where we're now $15 trillion in debt."
"Each of us, when we're sworn in as Members of Congress, are required to take an oath to 'uphold the Constitution and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same'."
"So the specific excess has to be identified and then the specific excess above the spending rates of this provision would be limited to that military conflict."
"But aren't there countless circumstances in which we benefit from the fact that there is some perhaps minimal uncertainty, the Sword of Damocles effect, in the fact that the courts could step in in a ..."
"I think that plays in exactly to my point about how Members of Congress, particularly when they understand that the buck stops with them as far as their interpretation of a particular constitutional p..."
"You have acknowledged today that mistakes were made, obviously, within the Department of Justice related to the Fast and Furious program but without specifying who made those mistakes."
"I find this interesting in the sense that here the requirement outlined in Section 2518 of Title 18 requires an analysis at the Department of Justice level."
"The members of our committee know I'm a strong advocate for the domestic production of natural gas."
"So do you know what it is you're looking for? I mean, what is it you're looking for?"
"How would you characterize the quality of the water that you sampled, then?"
"But you were, I assume, somewhat relieved by the findings that you did make, by what you discovered, the lack of contamination that you saw?"