"Thank you, Chairman and Ranking Member, thank you both for being involved with this hearing today and allowing me to introduce the next participant."
"Would you say that having the opportunity to compete on that level instead of everybody trying to go against the big dogs without any opportunity like this, beneficial for the taxpayer?"
"I have in my district right now a situation with a boot manufacturer that has been a small business and always been rated as small business."
"I want to protect the employee. I understand that. But do you have an answer on how the language can be put together, other than saying, 'Okay, we think this goes too far'? Because my final job, I fee..."
"I don't like big government a lot. I really don't. I think we kind of overstep many things."
"we end up putting undue strain or a heavy collar and a heavy burden on our producers when we are trying to compete in a worldwide market."
"I was around when the lake was-- I was around driving with my grandfather in a truck when the dam was built for that."
"the lifeblood, economically, of our communities where we have National Forests is in good timber harvesting."
"the VA proudly announces some reform or initiative that will allegedly fix the problems."
"the Corps has successfully built a $648 million hospital at Fort Bliss."
"why is VA qualified to build a lemonade stand, let alone a multi-million dollar facility?"
"I strongly urge the committee to authorize the Navy's request for an additional 12 F/A-18 aircraft for the coming fiscal year."