John Mica

In fact, the January 2013 TSA report, 'Screening Partnership Annual Report,' says none of the three major goals towards implementing private screening were completed.

Members of Congress, like myself and others, were frustrated with what was going on.

We are the stewards of taxpayer dollars.

I was one of the people who helped create TSA.

A corporate tax cut would be a huge jobs bill, in my view.

We've got the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

I think the Federal Government ought to get out of the job training business.

The Federal job training programs have never really worked very well.

The administration's been kind of clever, too, now, in ruling by fiat and executive order to pack the District Court of Appeals.

It's rule by edict, fiat, regulation.

You have got to just keep going after the bastards until you are successful.

We are seeing it across the Nation.

What we are seeing is absolute turmoil in the marketplace. Seniors, they are the most vulnerable in our society and probably need the most medical coverage.

In my State, which has many, many senior citizens residing in Southwest Florida, their primary oncologist provider was the Moffitt Hospital. That has been dropped.

Well, again, with more mandates, the cost, the premiums are more. So they have shafted as many as 5.5 million in their premiums.

But these people who had existing plans now have been notified that they are not getting them, with the new mandates in that.

But couldn't it have been done by changing some of the requirements and then letting competition and the private sector, existing mechanism rather than big government take it over?

The longer I stay here, the longer I am convinced that government could screw up a two car funeral and, if given the opportunity, often does.

You can fool some of the people some of the time. You can BS people some of the time.

I want them to come and see this facility that we are going to put 655 of their brothers and sisters in, and then leave them in what I consider a dump.

I am absolutely outraged at what is going on here with this. This is a perfect example of why American people should be fed up with government, to see this nonsense.

But it needs renovation to accommodate modern-day conveniences.

It is going to need--it is 70 years old.

I said in the future you are going to have to spend quite a bit of money to--I mean to renovate it.

It is a dump. I mean, compared to what you are looking at here.