"I urge my colleagues to oppose it."
"H.R. 1493 would needlessly slow down an agency action and open the door widely to almost anyone who wants to impede agency action."
"I cannot and will not speak to any funding or motivations behind the report, but what I do know is that there has been a really concerted ideological campaign."
"Taking just the Clean Air Act as an example, Congress expected Americans to be safeguarded against hazardous air pollution."
"What I see us doing here this morning is undermining the basic reproductive rights of women by prohibiting any abortion after 20 weeks."
"It has been said by one of our esteemed Members of this Judiciary Committee that when Members of Congress attempt to play doctor, it is bad medicine for women, and that is what brings us here today."
"Well, that is some progress, and I thank you, Doctor, for your responses."
"the global war on terror implies war without end, a concept that, as you can guess, I vigorously oppose."
"our colleague, the Ranking Member, Adam Smith, will be offering again his amendment to prohibit indefinite detention for anyone captured in the United States."
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, . . . No Nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
"We're not going to be allowed to just drop bombs on people in that country without their permission."