Amerish Bera actually said...

"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."

"Foreign policy best is done in a bipartisan way and that the best foreign policy at our best is when the executive branch is working closely with the legislative branch."