"I think this is bad for our country. I think it is bad for national security."
"I think this really turns our back on Israel, our most trusted ally in the region."
"If a constitutional, explicit constitutional protection does create some inconvenience in other parts of American life, has that ever been deemed sufficient to simply write it out of the Constitution ..."
"it's almost like people have got to beg to have these rights enforced in Federal court."
"The economic development that was promised in Kelo actually turned out to be a failure."
"Now, the IRS claimed, Mr. Koskinen claimed that the IRS went to, 'great lengths and made extraordinary efforts to recover her emails.'"
"This situation is not supporting the services that our veterans need in my district, and it's not showing good stewardship of taxpayer dollars."
"I'm concerned about this happening all over the country. Because there's a lot of good people who are potentially going to be negatively affected if we continue down this road."
"I think we need to do this as quickly as possible. I think time is wasting, and I think our veterans are being left to suffer."
"I'm concerned also about the taxpayer penalties that the taxpayer is now going to have to pay."
"But it has been over 3.5 years since the VA was first notified of this potential to be vacating. So why hasn't the VA found a site in that intervening period?"