Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the extra time. I would just question if they are pushing back, there is a significant reason why they are pushing back on using lands that they requested to use.

Mr. Speaker, we've all had to dig a little deeper in our pocketbooks when visiting the gas station lately. Gas has now reached $4 a gallon in my district. Combined with the stubbornly high unemployment rate in Michigan, I know my…

With Michigan's unemployment rate consistently higher than the national average, I remain committed to thoroughly reviewing the implications of burdensome regulations that have the potential to overwhelm my State's and country's job…

I appreciate the opportunity from the gentleman from California to stand with my colleagues tonight to speak on an important issue. It was an amazing experience for me this morning to be part of the Oversight and Government Reform…

I don't normally quote from Joseph Stalin, but today he said something appropriate about liberty. He said, "America is like a healthy body, and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, its spiritual life. If we can…

I have heard the Constitution being attacked, being denigrated.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

What is the compelling State interest in providing free contraception? It is available to 98 percent of the people in this country.

Should your parishioners... have First Amendment rights of conscience?

A republic once equally poised must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty.

I look at a little card here that I have that lists a number of things to deal with regulatory barriers that come from government.