Kevin Yoder

the IRS and other Federal agencies admitted that they were reading the emails and electronic correspondence of Americans without a warrant, without respect for Fourth Amendment privacy protections.

As the chief law enforcement officer of the country, Mr. Attorney General, it's incredibly disheartening to learn that you are not, in fact, enforcing the law.

I have even urged without effect Attorney General Holder to publicly call out backpage.com and similar sites to at least add an element of shame in the public square.

Is the IRS continuing to read the emails or other electronic correspondence, the private correspondence, of Americans without a warrant in contravention of Fourth Amendment rights?

I suspect the committee will discuss at length your decision to allow distributors in Washington State and Colorado to dispense marijuana and your instruction to U.S. attorneys to deemphasize marijuana prosecutions.

the Federal Government continues to grow at pretty significant rates. This year, the Federal Government will have more tax dollars from the American people than at any other time in history.

huge problems in the economy, some of which have been created by policies that have been pursued by Congress over the past few years that increase mandates on businesses, increase the cost of doing business.

Do we know what the cost to comply is? I have seen some reports saying that it would be up to a billion dollars on grocers and convenience stores.

What do we do about the other needs that are out there with Rural Utilities Service? Is the administration open to, or can we work together to find additional flexibility in this language so that we could expand the uses, as opposed to…

The purpose would be to support these rural communities and assure that they have the access needed.

I am a cosponsor of legislation in the House that would require research that was funded by taxpayer dollars to be published online.

I think this is an enormous opportunity for us to link a need for beginning farmers with--as Representative Fortenberry suggested, a lot of these kids who were serving in the military came from those small towns; 40 percent of the military…

I think there is a beauty to our system that is unparalleled in the world.

You are a co equal branch of government, and we have a responsibility to make sure that the resources are there.

I think the American people are very concerned that the implementation of the sequester is being done in a way that is a greater impact on the daily lives of our citizens.

I am concerned the SEC did not consider small entities when it proposed the conflict minerals disclosure rule...

I happen to strongly disagree and believe that Americans expect that their email is not being read by the Federal Government.

One of the things we are endeavoring to do is we look to try to balance the federal budget, get our books balanced here, find smart ways to reduce spending.

But let's agree to stop putting additional obligations on the American taxpayers, therefore we do not have to increase the debt ceiling.

I think it is very, very relevant, and determining the motivation and determining the rationale is very critical to preventing this from ever happening again.

How many groups continue to be held under unjust, unconstitutional scrutiny by the IRS as of today?

And so it is pretty hard, I think, to explain to taxpayers why the federal government cannot find a penny of savings.

I do not think that you can look at it as a percentage of the total budget because we cannot reduce Social Security checks or Medicare payments to make up for a dollar in either air traffic control or the Defense Department.

Actually, Mr. Graves, I think the earned income tax credit, every year, about 25 percent of those payments are fraudulent.

But as we get into the debt ceiling debate, my hope is, and I am sure this will not occur, but I will say it because I just hope that you will consider this, that the rhetoric that the Administration has previously used on this issue has…