Douglas LaMalfa actually said...

"A big part of our job should be, and is, government oversight of any program or government operation."

"if there had been a more consistent handling of this, I think, from the BIA and through the Administration, then we probably would not be having this bill, or a need for a bill like this today."

"I still think that the founding principles of vesting that power into the lower house first, or even the upper house, the power with the people, instead of ceding that over to a bureaucracy, is going ..."

"I still have this ideal concept that the founders had, that this is the people's house."