It is easy to point fingers. It is easy to make allegations. It is much more difficult to make a cogent case against deferred prosecution agreements.

The question becomes how much discretion?

This is an amendment that addresses the issue of the organization that is known collectively as ACORN.

It is to my endeavor that they not receive it.

I want to congratulate you and Mr. Graves and all of those who have set this tone that this Committee does work for the best interest of small business in America.

I have a philosophical position that I have long held that we should guarantee equal opportunity for all, and special preference for none.

I have an obligation to defend them wherever I can.

this debate came here because it has been shut down in the Rules Committee.

I disagreed with her opinion, and yet I recall that she said--she wrote in that opinion that perhaps there would be a time in the future, perhaps 25 years in the future, where we could back and revisit and where we would no longer justify…

I am committed to no longer allowing any federal funds from getting into ACORN's coffers until such time as there is a completed investigation.

But it looks to me like perhaps all of that $89,000 that Speaker Pelosi spent to purchase these carbon credits essentially brought about no change in anyone's behavior.

the underlying science that drives this entire global warming initiative, is that something that you have examined? And are you comfortable with the science?

How do we preserve free enterprise, how do we preserve the rights of property, the rights of contract, the rights of franchise?

I hope we don't end up subsidizing the shipping of American jobs to other countries.

We passed, over my objection, the TARP funding last fall, the $780 billion.

I believe the prosecutor is looking at this. Department of Justice attorneys would look at 1001, absolutely, as a possible statute to be applied.

I appreciate your testimony and I think it reflects the long service to this country and the significant depth of knowledge that has been built upon that experience.

I am familiar with 1001, yes.

What my amendment does is it establishes--we will have an online education Web site that is part of this--but my amendment establishes an online Web site for use by potential and existing entrepreneurs to facilitate peer-to-peer technical…

Having spent nearly 30 years as an entrepreneur myself with a small business and sold that off to my second-generation oldest son, I looked at this proposal that is here.

Did you father ever advise you, as a matter of being a good citizen, that one needed to, as a matter of citizenship, help cooperate in enforcing immigration law in the United States?

If it had been a family member who had been killed by an illegal who would have otherwise not been in this country if the law had been enforced, if that had been your close family member, your sister for example, would you perhaps change…

I just began to ask the question that I didn't know the answer to and I asked staff to go back and find it for me.

The Supreme Court made clear in the 1981 case of Haig v. Agee that 'such holdings are appropriate given that it is obvious and unarguable that no government interest is more compelling than the security of the Nation.'

It is important that as we seek to enforce the law, that we also live under the law.