Rod Blum: “It's not the Federal workers that are the problem. It's the people at the very top typically or the contractors.”

It seems to them that we privatized profits and socialized losses, and I am with them.

The only time I hear some of my colleagues express their concern about the deficit is when this body is considering policies to let hardworking American families keep more of their hard-earned money. This is not the government's money. It…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 420, noes 0, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 568] AYES--420 Abraham…

To me, it is almost like legalized extortion, in that you can get a letter--and we have, our company has--get a letter that says, you know: You are violating this innocuous patent we have never heard of because you--I will use an extreme…