One thing that not only Barney Frank, Ms. Barnes and also Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice O'Connor agreed on is that that Kelo decision stripped those three words out of the Fifth Amendment, 'for public use.'

the very vitality of America's free enterprise economy is rooted in property rights, and without them, capital can't make wise investments.

No one doubts that if a change in administration comes and the new President disagrees with the existing Director, he or she can be removed.

Barney Frank, the author of the Dodd-Frank bill, in this committee, sitting in that chair, who has testified in this committee that he told us that the $50 billion threshold is arbitrary and that we should look at alternative methods for…

This is not a bill to protect religious liberty in general. It singles out one particular religious tenet.

I was particularly pleased that, unlike some others, he did not exclude Muslims from that tradition.

how do you morally justify further disadvantaging that child by denying him or her benefits? Because that's what this bill allows.

This is a legislative enactment that essentially says that the fact that I live in a loving committed marriage with another man is somehow a threat to other people's freedom.

If you're going to dip your fingers in the Federal till, don't complain if a little democracy rubs off on them.

This bill--and I will differ specifically with Mr. Labrador on this--empowers people to take my tax money and use it to do things and then exclude me and Jim from its benefit.

I was one of three Members of the House who voted against that. Three of us, Ron Paul, Dave Wu, and I voted to allow this bigot to continue to demonstrate his bigotry.