"So I hear a lot of talk from my Republican friends and from my conservative friends about how the government should run more like a business."
"I think we need to tone down the level of rhetoric here when we're talking about an Executive order that simply asks individual agencies to consider PLAs when appropriate."
"I hope in the future that, though committee is certainly going to be used occasionally to advance the political imperatives of the majority party, that the other side gets a chance to put their best e..."
"I think we've gone too far here, I think, in violating House rules, in violating basic concepts of fairness."
"What we're asking here today is for that to be taken away from the Federal Government."
"the Tillman Act prohibited contributions by corporations to political parties for the first time."
"requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage without which democracy is doomed."
"campaign finance laws have existed for more than a century."
"most recently in 2002 Congress passed the bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act."
"Today, all individual contributors or aggregate contributors in excess of $200 have to be disclosed."
"This is a serious problem, as a large number of our people live with 10 or 12 persons in a home that was sized to accommodate only 3 or 4."