I believe we should be helping Americans first.

It looks like an accounting gimmick. First, it was an insult to our liberty. Now, it is an insult to our intellect, as well.

Should we not help Americans firsts?

If the public's response to recent disasters is an indicator of their future behavior, new spending records will be spent with respect to federal assistance unless steps are taken to reduce future losses.

this is easily the most anemic recovery we have had since the Great Depression.

we will not allow for the Keystone pipeline to be brought into the United States of America.

Small business in this country is dying. They are not growing, they are not hiring.

I would just implore you to commit to looking out for small businesses and community banks.

It seems like whatever we tend to do up here, the big banks, big business is able to adjust to; small businesses and community banks get hit hard.

What I hear over and over back home is they are scared to death with all the uncertainty coming out of Washington.

I appreciate that the city of Washington, DC, is at a breaking point right now and I am just really curious as to why people above you do not let you enforce the law.

You are not enforcing your own statute. Who is telling you, I know this is not you, who is telling you not to enforce the statute?

I think that this once again represents a rule, a regulation, whatever you call it that is counterproductive to what established this country and made it great, and that is the free market and enterprise system.

The whole issue of the payroll tax and Social Security is an issue that nobody in Washington really is even talking about.

So I guess I would encourage all of the Members of Congress to understand that while we need to make sure that we are protecting the consumer, don't underestimate the intelligence of the American consumer. They're pretty good at it.

Consumers were abused, and the regulators did not do their job in protecting consumers in many cases, and so the American people were, I think, sometimes traumatized and demanded action.

This permit does not improve food safety, does not add any additional environmental protection or benefit for society, and does nothing to improve my bottom-line.

Spending precious resources for this purpose represents neither good public policy nor a wise use of taxpayer dollars.

We are $15 trillion in debt. Fannie and Freddie have been subsidized to the tune of about $170 billion the last 3 years.

Our local small business, not the government, will create the jobs and pull us out of this recession.

The economic recovery is weak. Small businesses are still struggling.

Washington, which should be making job creation easier, is instead creating more hurdles.

It is about intimidation. It is about unions trying to do somehow through rules and regulations what they have not been as successful through Congress to do.

It is not about whether unions are good or bad or what they provide for employees or don't.

He wants Congress, each and every member of Congress, to be a prop in that 30-minute theater.