Devin Nunes

It is clear that high-speed rail is not about jobs. It is about political corruption, public deception, and bureaucratic experimentation.

if your eyes are on the stars, you are likely--and that is--if you keep your eyes in the stars, you may end up falling into a ditch.

It would help out for commerce, it would help out for air quality. It would get trucks off the road.

I think we agree that there should be gradual change, and that is why in Mr. Ryan's plan he has put forward 55 and older, because that gives people time for retirement planning and such to deal with the changes.

Nothing done by our government in the past 4 decades has actually helped to achieve the goal of energy independence.

I think simplifying of the tax code, getting rid of all these credits would be something worthwhile.

If we summon the political will to enact this legislation before the committee, H.R. 909, would reverse this course.

And I think we have been set back in this country over the last 4 decades because we really have not invested in new nuclear technology, and we are in real danger of falling behind China, who, you know, some folks estimate that they are on…

I believe that despite the ranking member's testimony at the beginning, I think this is something that is new, is innovative, and it would change the way that alternative energy is deployed.

What I tried to achieve in drafting this legislation was that tried to create a scenario where the Congress forces an administration to act one way or the other on Yucca Mountain.

Congress can no longer avoid its responsibilities when our counterintelligence operations provide critical support to our combat units in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and in other important places across the world or when our intelligence…

It also doesn't mention the time that we will have to spend on some foreign countries that are quickly gaining access to minerals that are very hard to come by. So many foreign nations are investing a lot of time, energy and effort into…

I would like to say thank you to Chairman Rogers and to Ranking Member Ruppersberger for really taking the Intelligence Committee and establishing its relevance back in the House. I know we've had some disagreements in the past, but…

I commend Governor Scott Walker and what he did. I think what he proposed in the State of Wisconsin was incredibly bold and courageous.

Governor Walker was just here in this town a few weeks ago and admitted in testimony before Congress that his assault on worker rights had absolutely nothing to do with the budget situation that we face in the State of Wisconsin.

This budget stops in its tracks the efforts of Democrat leaders to trap the American people on a high-speed train trip with the false promise of green jobs. This is a trip, a one-way ticket to bankruptcy. However, if you support the Ryan…

I want to just take this time, Mr. Chairman, to encourage you to move forward with fundamental tax reform.

At enormous cost and in the face of tremendous opposition across the country, the previous majority in Congress forced on the American people a great socialist experiment in government health care. No area of the American health care…

The country wants repeal of Obamacare. The country needs repeal of Obamacare, and the House of Representatives will repeal Obamacare.

This debate is not about the uninsured; it's about socialized medicine. Today we are turning back the clock. For most of the 20th century, people fled the ghosts of communist dictators, and now you are bringing the ghosts back into this…

I want to make sure that we have a clear record of what has happened in the House of Representatives regarding what is now called H.R. 4252. This bill actually was originally called H.R. 2316, and it was marked up in the Resources…

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That seems to be the Democrats' creed and motto. There wouldn't be any need for today's bill if the failed trillion-dollar stimulus package last year actually worked. A year ago the Democrats…

I still have yet to have someone explain to me from the other side of the aisle how the trillion-dollar stimulus bill passed last year that was supposed to create 3.7 million jobs--instead, we lost 3 million--and how this bill that spends…

I'm just trying to figure out the math. This is about a $13 billion to $15 billion bill to create 1 million or hundreds of thousands of jobs. Last year we spent $1 trillion to create 3.7 million jobs, and we lost 3 million jobs.

I am strongly opposed, I am strongly against this policy of adding any type of energy tax at all to the American public, especially at this time.