Assad will give 1,000 people with barrel bombs and have the good taste to deny it.

I would hope that banks would be less free to rip off consumers and less free to rip off the U.S. taxpayer through some new bailout program.

The other problem I have with this rule is it is written by economists who have this absurd belief that everyone else in the country is an economist.

It is absurd for us to have two different rules.

If you are going to provide more protection and less freedom, you would think you would do that for my 86-year-old mother rather than for me.

Certainly, one source of terrorism is Iran. We are entering into this deal in which we are supposed to waive the sanctions that were enacted to deal with their nuclear program.

It is not our job here to grade the President of the United States or his predecessors.

We are not here to live in a fantasy world.

I want to assure you, Bank Melli is the stinkiest bath water out there. This is not a beautiful baby.

If you vote for a government that meets in a building and discusses laws that will be ignored, you might as well vote in a beauty contest.

I think field hearings are an important part of what our committee does.

America has an interest in the economic and political development of Southeast Asian countries.