"As the Speaker of the House, I am engaged in recruiting candidates to run for the legislature."
"I am certain that many candidates would not be able to run for office without the public financing option."
"More importantly, after I qualified for clean elections, I could spend the majority of my time talking to my constituents."
"This Subcommittee has a mission of working on a bipartisan basis to ensure the safety and well-being of children."
"When we passed that bill, I said at the time our job is far from done."
"I agree and I think we ought to proceed down that road."
"The legislation we put forward would provide a dedicated funding source to ensure many more children receive the benefits of home visitation."
"On transparency, as the chairman of the U.S. chapter of Transparency International, I think it is very important..."
"I mean, I think the challenge for U.S. negotiators is that in many--for U.S. foreign investors in other jurisdictions, we want to obtain greater substantive rights for our investors than domestic inve..."
"I agreed that they represented a good balance."
"Our goal, however, should not be to give foreigners more rights than Americans have."
"I do think that we have been assigned to have a look and see if it can be made better. We need to do that."