Amerish Bera actually said...

"We stopped doing that in the mid-80s and 1990s, and, you know, it--and we're living off of the residual, in California, of those investments--we made in the 1960s and 1970s."

"if we are authorizing and appropriating funds for programs I do think it is part of our responsibility to say are these programs actually working the way they are--are we using the taxpayer dollars in..."

"I am confident that at the end of this Congress a couple years from now, a year and a half from now or so, we are going to be able to have real product, maybe in legislative form, maybe through oversi..."

"I really have had the desire to try to work in a bipartisan way, especially when we approach foreign policy."