Marilyn Musgrave: “The Hyde amendment has to be fought for every year.”

Well, there is a thing called ``Orwellian speak.'' And when we have a bill that has a 4.8 percent increase and we go to 4.3, that is not a cut.

Today is the day that we know the American people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent. If we're going to have earmarks, let's have the whole Congress, 435 of us, duly elected by our constituents, give it an up-or-down…

If I may answer your question, first, I would like to point out that, I just realized this, up here to my right in the front of the room, in the front of the Chamber, there is a dictionary. Perhaps the gentleman would like to look up the…

What I would like to say to the citizens in the Fourth District in Colorado is that I'm very willing to take the increase from a 6.7 to a 6.2 percent increase.