"They're spending money in our view, recklessly and so, yes, we've had a lot of discussions over the last couple of days about what our authority would be to claw some of that back and to stop it."
"This is a brainstorming session."
"There's got to be a graceful way for us to navigate these issues."
"Now we live in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. Now we live in the age of social media, the politics and the dynamics are very different."
"There's a very important protocol and tradition and rule that we maintain that the House Ethics Committee's jurisdiction does not extend to non-members of Congress. I think that would be a Pandora's b..."
"We'll evaluate all that at the appropriate time, and we'll make the appropriate decision. There may be a function for that, and we'll have to see how it plays out."
"democracy demands transparency."
"I'm going to strongly request the Ethics Committee not to issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set."
"That is not the way we do things in the House. And I think that would be a terrible precedent to set."
"Not, no, this has been ascribed to me. That is not what I said."
"When I say we're going to have a very aggressive first hundred days agenda, we've got a lot of things still on the table."