Mike Coffman

I think that it seems to be more about defending the status quo than defending the country.

Could it be argued that, now, they have a lot of the same pressures that we have, where, you know, are they going to maintain a welfare state or are they going to cut their defense budget.

What functions could be provided for in the Guard and Reserve? So instead of reducing the size of the Guard and Reserve we ought to be expanding the size of the Guard and Reserve and maintaining it so that we don't have to reduce our…

Only U.S.--uniformed U.S. military personnel handle the remains of those who have fallen in battle.

I really think that if anything comes out of these hearings, that the chain of custody for those who have fallen in battle, that chain of custody for the remains of those who have fallen must be by uniformed military personnel only.

That is why I introduced H.R. 981, Congress is Not a Career Act.

What I do know is this, I was a cop for 38 years, and for the last 10 of those years, I was sheriff of Hernando County, Florida.

I am not here to enrich myself but, rather, serve my community, my neighbors, and my Nation.

I feel that this also fits in that vision by doing away with the defined benefit pension program.

Last September, I introduced House Resolution 2913, and what House Resolution 2913 does is it in effect ends the congressional pension program.

I believe that the Congress of the United States has to lead by example to give us the credibility to attack these very difficult issues.

We in the Congress are going to have to exercise extraordinary leadership in navigating this country out of our debt crisis.

The greatest threat to U.S. security is our national debt.

What plans, and the analysis used for those plans, if any, does your Department have to supplement the loss of production, jobs, revenues and safety this delay of Keystone XL will cause?

Under the Obama Administration, these restrictions have only inflamed an already tough situation while burdening an economy with an in-state unemployment rate of 8.3%.

While I fully support greater American production, this pipeline is not only in our nation's best interest for national security but economically beneficial to us as well.

Thank you, Secretary Salazar, for attending this hearing on the future of oil and gas development on Federal lands.

I think that there needs to be a component of certainty in that.

I disagree with the notion that we ought to go in the direction of all defined contribution.

As a Member from Colorado, I understand how vital the PILT program is to my District.

I believe we ought to elevate post-traumatic stress disorder up to a wound and that we ought to make every effort to treat folks before they are released from Active Duty.

We gain perspective, perspective that allows us to stop looking at Government fixes for our struggling economy.

Small businesses create 7 out of every 10 new private sector jobs in America.

As policymakers in Washington and specifically the Committee on Small Business, we seek advice on policies to create jobs.

We have three security objectives in Afghanistan. The first is to make sure the Taliban don't take over the entire country. The second is to keep al Qaeda out of the country. And the third is to have a permissive environment from which we…