Tom McClintock: “It seems to me, from your report, that the increase in spending is all being driven by mandatory spending?”

It's the turning of the most terrifying powers that government possesses against its own citizens to influence elections.

When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?

If you look at the actual studies, that's simply not true.

When the history of this administration is written, I would not want to be you looking back on what historians say about your tenure.