John Shimkus actually said...

"In this era of budget crises and entitlement reform, to think that we wouldn't do some simple steps to get a handle on waste, fraud, and abuse is unbelievable."

"There was a huge rally in deep southern Illinois over the weekend to protect and save coalmining jobs in the country."

"Let's just take a look at it, write an authorization, get bipartisan support, clean it up."

"We, as authorizers, also really dislike public policy created through spending authority versus authorization."