Harley Rouda: “It's just unfortunate that it looks like the Keystone Cops are the ones that are driving our foreign policy right now.”

The stakes are simply too high for that, because, as Dr. Shindell has testified here today, millions of American lives are at risk if we in Congress don't stop ignoring the experts.

Defending the indefensible.

The Postal Service also has a ridiculous mandate to prefund in 10 years' time 75 years of retiree health benefits, unlike any other private or public institution.

The utter stupidity in that statement lies in the fact that undocumented immigrants last year, according to the Internal Revenue Service, paid $9 billion in payroll taxes.