This week I went to Augusta, Georgia, to participate in an oversight hearing with Chairman Jeff Miller of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. This visit was the result of multiple deaths and delays in care reported in the Augusta…

We have Federal justices, from the local district courts all the way up to the Supreme Court, who have legislated from the bench.

We need to have people who have experience when they come to the table.

The President, through Executive Orders, has no Constitutional authority whatsoever of creating law.

We cannot do our job to legislate when we have a President--and we have had Presidents of both parties that have legislated through Executive Orders.

A major re-thinking is needed of this act, one that is going to be effective for species that people care about.

We have much to do on critical habitat designation, and that is really one of the bigger flaws.

It really comes down to ridiculous. That is what the public doesn't hear about.

Article 1, Section 1, sentence 1 of the U.S. Constitution says that all legislative authority is vested in the Congress of the United States.

Now more than ever, Americans are feeling the pain from ObamaCare. This law is hurting Americans with higher premiums and cancelation notices. If it is left in place, our country will suffer under the new wave of spending that it will…

Mr. Chairman, I have run out of time. I yield back.

As far as I am concerned, as a physician, as a scientist, this is totally unethical, and totally unacceptable.

Thank you, Dr. Roe. The Federal Government is out of control. It has become too big. It is spending too much. It is taxing too much. It is regulating too much. It is borrowing too much. And it is sticking its ugly nose into our business…

America is at a crossroads. We have a decision to make. Do we continue down the path of more government, more spending, more taxes, and more borrowing; or do we stand up and fight for the ideals promoted by those who founded our Nation and…

We will continue to support tyranny in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Algeria, and wherever we find it useful in the Muslim world.

we will continue to prosecute the clash of civilizations started by President Bush and accelerated by President Obama and Mrs. Clinton.

We will continue to unquestioningly arm and support Israel.

We will continue preaching democracy but readily intervene to undermine or destroy democratically-elected regimes in places like Palestine and Egypt.

the first and most important motivation of these young American Muslims to go to war is the interventionist foreign policy of the United States

utilizing them as a 'silver bullet' is absolutely not appropriate

It will defeat the purpose of this hearing if our questions are sidestepped through the use of bureaucratic doublespeak, as that will only try our patience and will waste our limited and valuable time.

If money is so tight and our weather satellite programs are so vulnerable, then perhaps the Administration needs to evaluate its priorities and determine which is more important: near-term weather monitoring, which can save lives and…

I think all of us would be very eager to make sure that that happens.

I would appreciate it. We are going to give you some questions to answer for the record.

We can't have launch date slips because any further launch date slips like what happened on GOES, it appears insignificant, it is actually significant because it affects the backup situation.