"If we are to ask our young men and women to fight, and potentially give their lives, then we in this body can at least muster the courage to debate if American military intervention is warranted."
"Pandora’s box has been opened. Congress must now focus its effort on de-escalation and preventing the call for regime change – the consequences of which, if applied to Iran, risk the total destabiliza..."
"I think the big blowback is if we don’t do something to reduce the deficit we’ll be seen as hypocrites."
"He’s the most faithful to the Constitution of any of the members of the House. He’s fiscally conservative, and I think he cares a lot about Kentucky."
"I think the president should have more power not to spend money."
"No president can bomb another country without the permission of Congress."
"It’s not the U.S.’s job to be involved in this war. Iraq was a mess, Afghanistan was a mess."
"We're $2 trillion in the hole and just an additional cost like this, I'm not for it."
"I don’t have as much trouble with the tax cuts. I think there should be more spending cuts, but if they want my vote, they’ll have to negotiate."
"I’m not an absolute no on the package."
"I never liked the idea of the parade."