Your kids will be paying for that and they will be saying, 'Hey Dad, why did you guys do that?'

. . . despite the importance of NOAA's fisheries mission, it seems fraught with a lack of responsiveness and a management process that is slow to react.

I differentiate. I know there are a lot of people who have legitimate concerns. I disagree with them, but they have them.

Mike, I don't know why you would make things up. We're trying to have a serious discussion.

Well, it's more partisan in the House, less so in the Senate.

We were stopping -- that debate got interrupted by the right-wing attacks, not the mainstream conservatives, on the president and the health care plan.

You have got to sometimes differentiate yourself from your friends.

It is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.

In the first place, Mike Rogers is simply wrong. And I'm disappointed in him.

I agree with that. I haven't been rude to people, except to the crazies.

On what planet do you spend most of your time?