You know what's interesting about that bill, though, is dispute that strange route that it went for the strange product that wasn't passed by the committee, we still had a decent debate on it and passed the bill. The importance of that is…

You know, the amazing thing is, I was in the State legislature, and we had, out of 180 members, 26 Republicans, and yet the philosophies were still reflective of the State of Georgia. You could roughly say one-third of the people were…

I am an appropriator, and I can tell you, generally all appropriation bills have been open rule. There have been a few rare occasions when we were in the majority that we had maybe a modified rule or a closed rule, but traditionally open…

Well, you know, it's interesting the way the Pelosi- Reid-Obama triumvirate always is coming back to government and Washington solutions because, as I see it, looking at the government performance, Republican or Democrat, it hasn't been…

With more to come. More to come. As you said, cap-and-trade, but you did not mention the banking bill. This is another financial takeover. And you know, I haven't seen a lot of wisdom behind the government-knows-best mentality of the…

Investment money is going to sit on the sidelines until the government sets the rules and keeps them. Businesses can adjust. Even if the rules are a bit excessive and high and unreasonable, business will adjust to it. But if you keep…

Well, you know, the old expression, I'm from the government, I'm here to help. I haven't found a school board or a school board member back home or a teacher in the classroom who can't spend the money more efficiently and more effectively…

It absolutely does. But the thing I am saying on this Federal Reserve spending is that neither Senator nor President Obama has spoken out against that. He embraced the TARP bill, the Wall Street bailout, with both arms. That is $700…

So special interest groups have clearly been on the inside of this and their fingerprints are all over the health care bill.

I understand there's some special interests for Louisiana, Connecticut, Michigan, and those are the deals we know about because those were a little bit more visible. But you can imagine all the other oddball stuff in there, the hospital…

Well, let me ask you this now. Who gets to look at it in 24 hours and when? Who is this group of people and when?

Yes. But let's talk about the Department of Education. Boy, I tell you what. School systems have really done well, haven't they, since the Department of Education. I mean, there's no way you could argue that.