I think it is absolutely chilling that we have to have this kind of a hearing to expose what is going on.

I don't really view you as working for the Administration, I view you as working for the American people.

Just to interrupt you, please, listen, you can't borrow your way out of debt.

When we testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, we heard not only from the gun lobby, but from United States Senators that expanding background checks will, not may, will lead to a registry, which will lead to confiscation…

I think, the one thing that this highlights as does the shooting in Colorado Springs a week before and the one before that, and before that, is that we have a serious gun violence issue. We have a lot of people that die every year, up to…

Hopefully at some point, members of Congress will see that this is something the people want and it will bring down the death rate from gun violence and it is something they should do.

So we've got to, you know, we've got to compel, you know, our citizens out here to really care about this issue.

I mean, to have the opportunity for the United States Senate to, you know, vote to close this terror gap. I mean, we have a large number of people on the terrorist watch list. They currently have easy access to firearms here in the United…

Right now it is just too easy.

Your capacity needs to be built so that we can send the right amount of tanks, Brads, self-propelled Howitzers...

lack of food, or famine, is national security.

the places where our terrorists are being trained that are attacking this nation are places where they don't have food.

cash money, as opposed to food that has a U.S. flag on it, is much less effective in feeding that population.

It is absolutely false. The wound may heal, but it leaves a deep scar that is there forever.

I mean, the stark difference of this is the difference between day and night where you have one person, Qadhafi, who was ready then to say, okay, fine, we are going to give into this.

If there are no consequences for bad behavior, and they have already violated this agreement, why in the world would they suddenly say, you know what, I think we will start going along with the intent of what was trying to be done.

I don't believe you can ever have an agreement with anybody unless both parties agree that they want to get to a common end.

the return on taxpayer investment is what we are concerned about, and that it is fair.

the way out of poverty is education, but education for something that actually gets you to where you need to go

While I was home in the district in August, I visited all 22 counties which I have, and I visited lenders, bankers, credit unions.

I think, as referenced earlier, that we have seen significant improvements in the education field, based predominantly on some flexibility and the ability to create individual progress plans for people.

So we need outcome measures, clearly-defined outcome measures, but not without enough flexibility to help the individual needs of the people involved.

I think statistics are pretty clear that we are better served when both are involved.

You always have to start with where they are.

I have introduced the TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination Act last week to address this issue by ending the separate and higher requirement for two-parent families.