Daniel E. Lungren

So if anybody wants to find a bipartisan piece of legislation, it is the only thing that I could find in the President's State of the Union address that he specifically mentioned that ought to be passed.

This new mandate is set to take effect on January 1 of next year. Now, regardless of one's view on the health care bill, the new 1099 filing requirement could not be more ill-conceived.

It is unwarranted and undesirable to establish a government agency to decide for us how much campaigns should cost.

We ought not to be afraid of ideas. That is the inconvenient truth we have here, which is the First Amendment to our Constitution.

It seems to me one of the underlying assumptions that you have for the bill is that this will help diminish the impact of money in politics.

I am, unfortunately, constrained to register my concern about the belief that taxpayers would be compelled to fund political campaigns.

Sometimes I just have to shake my head, because we haven't had an attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. It hasn't happened by accident.

Hopefully, we are getting away from that sort of thing. That is an industry that the United States is involved in. When we condemn it, we create an atmosphere in which we lose jobs.

I know this is not a mandatory law but it's, once again, the Federal Government deciding that the States don't matter.

I think the American people ought to understand that some people held at Guantanamo Bay are most likely not subject to criminal prosecution.

So if we close Guantanamo, we bring them here, all of the sudden they have an assortment of rights, which may mean, according to Federal judges, they are released, they are released into our communities.

We are building airports where nobody flies.

From a homeland security standpoint, we have to now calculate into the risk the possibility of someone wanting to introduce a disease into the animal population.

Your work towards the monumental task of securing our nation's food supply has not gone unnoticed.

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