Trent Franks

The private sector always makes these decisions better than government and if we take it in reverse look what happened when the government owned the telephone companies, it was a disaster.

I think you are going to see a huge change in the market share between Ford if the Obama administration and the UAW don't conspire to wipe them out as well.

Some of us, myself included, voted against the bailout early on because we could kind of sense from history that whenever government gets a hold of things and comes in and tries to run things that the disaster that follows is predictable

Did you not see that the lawlessness of what the task force was doing as it put together deals would be shredding the Bankruptcy Code?

Mr. Bloom, it is my view that what the President and the auto task force sought was not viable companies but pliable companies.

Viable companies aren't made by delivering ownership of them to the union whose unrelenting contract demands and unbending work rules drove them headlong down to the road to bankruptcy in the first place.

This is the Administration that lawlessly gives imaginary constitutional rights to foreigners who seek to attack Americans, this is the Administration that lawlessly deprives American citizens and investors of their contractual rights…

Viable companies don't eagerly sign up for CAFE standards that can only force them to make small cars Americans don't want for the nonexistent profits that don't follow.

Viable companies don't slash and burn the rights of the secured bond holders knowing that the issuance of new corporate bonds is bound to be a key in their future survival.

This Administration has made many risky decisions related to terrorism.

He seemed to have a difficult time articulating what a terrorist really is, and that concerns me, since he is the lead law enforcement official in the country, charged with protecting us from terrorists

The way you have comported yourself with the hearing this morning affirms the conclusion that many of us have held in the past that you have personified public service and your patriotism and your professionalism

The effect of this hearing is geared toward dismantling--at least in my opinion--any meaningful immigration enforcement policy, or at least the intimidation and chilling of lawful law enforcement activity.

There is an even more important element than competition in our economy, to hone it and to make it efficient and effective, and that is the word 'trust.'

I hope I can be as effective here, and we can save Western civilization, here, if we work at it.

Taxpayers will bear the risks as borrowers move to cram-down the principal on their home mortgages.

I hope we don't join that litany because I will tell you nothing has dragged more poor people out of poverty more than the free markets of the United States of America.

The primary difference between our economy and the socialist economies of the world... is essentially what Professor Mayer's central point was.

This legislation is problematic. It will impose costs on taxpayers, on future borrowers, and I believe will negatively impact other efforts at stemming the foreclosure crisis.

When the Democrats took over this place, they said that we were going to have that first 100 hours, that they were really going to show us how they were going to lead this place in the right direction. And it seems astonishing to me that…

I want to thank all of these men. You know, it is said in this place that the friends you find here, you can pick your pallbearers out of them. And I certainly feel that way about these three men. I am grateful to have the opportunity to…

Judge Carter can call the balls and strikes, in my judgment, any time. With that, I would yield to my friend, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King), for any further comments he might have.

Due to a scheduling conflict, I was unable to be on the floor of the House of Representatives during the last series of votes on May 4, 2005. If I had been, I would have cast a ``yes'' vote on H.R. 1185, Final Passage of the Federal…

I think all of us hold the commitment in our hearts and the understanding in our hearts that no greater love hath any man than this, than a man who lays down his life for his friends. There are so many men and women who have laid down…

I guess I would only associate my own feelings with the way that the gentleman has pointed out the heroism of our soldiers. As it happens, just the Iraqi conflict about 3,700 soldiers have received Purple Hearts, 4 Distinguished Service…