"We need to build some good will."
"Holyoke is a stressed city in my constituency in desperate need of health care."
"Social Security is a mandated savings program."
"Ten thousand Baby Boomers are retiring every single day."
"I have opposed expanding authority for the executive, regardless of who sits in the chair."
"there is frequently the complaint from our friends, and I do mean our friends, on the other side about the tyrant at the White House who is always usurping congressional authority."
"There is a good reason that Congress is mentioned as the first branch of government, and it is actually to oversee the executive."
"There is a slow encroachment of executive authority that dates to the founding of the country."
"I support the legislation. It is a benefit to our manufacturers."
"Mr. Chairman, there is a time when this would have moved through the Congress on a bipartisan basis."
"We need to do that from time to time."