"It is to my endeavor that they not receive it."
"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 revisi..."
"I have a philosophical position that I have long held that we should guarantee equal opportunity for all, and special preference for none."
"Members of Congress instead just simply offer earmarks for their endowments."
"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."
"I think we should adhere to them, even up to the point of allowing a witness to leave when the agreement is that the witness be allowed to leave."
"I really take the opportunity to thank all the witnesses and glad to have the chance to do so."
"I have an obligation to defend them wherever I can."
"This is an amendment that addresses the issue of the organization that is known collectively as ACORN."
"this debate came here because it has been shut down in the Rules Committee."
"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."