Jody Hice

College really has no business trying to cure people of their background.

They are restricted to free speech zones where Christian organizations are kicked off campuses or even forced to allow non-Christians to take leadership roles in the Christian organization.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you allowing me to be a part of this hearing today.

we have court decisions that... overwhelmingly have ruled against the majority of the speech codes in universities

This is insanity. It is absolute insanity to me.

I find this stunning. A lot of these are very important minerals, and minerals that we have here in the United States.

We are so encumbered with regulations, mitigation, litigation, and whatever other 'ation' we want to talk about.

There are a lot of Georgians who go to the Gulf for recreational fishing.

Citizen petitions and suits are critically important to wildlife conservation, as they present new science.

I think it is important that we reduce the red tape that is associated with seismic surveying.

This is more than just about energy independence, it is about national security.

I thank the gentleman for that.

we believe God gave us this land that we live in, and we should work it to our benefit.

If you can't fire someone, that is pretty good job security, or if you make it so difficult that it literally is an act of Congress to fire someone, that is pretty significant job security.

I have a bill myself, H.R. 1364, that would prohibit Federal employees who are using 80 percent or more of their time on official time in any given year, that they would not--that year would not be counted as creditable service for…

It ought to be the pastor, it ought to be the church that has a right to determine what is spoken from the pulpit, not the government.

The purpose why the Johnson Amendment came about in the first place, was it enacted to stop political speech from political opponents?

This amendment is an accident in our Nation's history.

They have done just that by being the gatekeeper, unfairly targeting pastors, churches, nonprofits.

I find great offense that we continue hearing that this is all about laundering dirty money through the churches.

Perhaps we ought to add 501(c)(3)s to the endangered species list.

The IRS should not be allowed to violate the Constitution.

Somebody needs to be accountable for it, folks.

the abuse that has been inflicted on American citizens by the IRS is inexcusable and it is time that there is accountability and some change that takes place at the IRS.

The wall should be built in a fiscally responsible way, and there are a variety of creative ways such as by using the seized assets of drug dealers to build it at little or no cost to the American taxpayer.