Tom McClintock: “Granting Puerto Rico such unprecedented bankruptcy authority would likely raise the borrowing costs of our states.”

In this country, we don't have Americans--or old Americans or new Americans; we just have my fellow Americans.

If a little waif showed up on your doorstep the first thing you are going to do is get that little child back to its family and its home.

Even if this was not happening, the mere perception of it is enough to destroy public confidence that the vote will accurately reflect the will of the American people.

You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You shall now give way to better men.