Tim Walberg

What controls are being created to protect the American people from abusive government power?

Vitamin T. Transparency is one of the best ways of fighting corruption.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I think it accurately points out that if this draft Executive order goes through and gets finalized, it will effectively restore the partisan spoil system in Federal contracting that civil service reformers struggled for decades to…

Thank you for appearing, but I'm concerned that the light of day from this administration was not afforded to us today.

I believe that acquisition award should be based on merits.

The barbarism? Al-Qaeda has nothing on these Mexican cartels.

It is very clear that we do have a terrorist organization, a known terrorist organization, Mr. Chairman, not one that we would like to identify as a terrorist organization with the drug cartels operating in Mexico.

We take enough offense to it, like last night, 11:50 p.m., Central time, which is the time that matters, we had two Border Patrol agents fired upon.

At the end of the day, the only performance measure that matters is that the border is secure, plain and simple.

There is no question the Federal Government can do this. When it is not done, there are consequences.

Sadly, the Government received a grade of 'F' on its efforts to enhance the Nation's capabilities for rapid response to prevent biological attacks from inflicting mass casualties.

I have listened to a textbook case, I believe, of self-induced amnesia this morning from my liberal colleagues. But the American people spoke in November, and I heard the mandate: Cut Federal spending so that more resources can be left in…

Mr. Mora said that the President doesn't want to militarize the border under any circumstances.

I am tempted to just suspend my questioning. But I am not going to do that, because we are grappling with that problem.

Let me cut to the point. Gas prices have skyrocketed at the worst possible time, the economy is in a slump, and people are hurting. The administration and congressional Democrats are making the problem worse with their burdensome energy…

I thank you as well for hanging the pictures in the back of the room again to remind us of the purpose of this committee, that we would understand liberty, and its price is eternal vigilance.

It is very difficult for a Sunni Muslim to be a fully practicing Sunni in Shiite Iran.

I think it is an important time to do it, and it is a time to carry on what this committee was originally established to do.

There won't be any hurdles that would keep a school like this from applying or being able to apply due to resources, or to gain the resources because of some of those standards that we set arbitrarily?

Well, there definitely is a lot of latitude potentially in there for concern for how far, how aggressive, the regulating entity of the States might be.

I would applaud that effort because, again, the diversity that is there, this country is built on that as you, I am sure, would agree with.

your staying power at the witness table is impressive, but probably should have been expected because of your record-setting tenure in the Chicago Public Schools system as a superintendent.

I personally am one that likes to see a lot of competition, a lot of variety, a lot of framework for research and development that can come through things like that.

And I believe that more and more people, even those that are using the entitlements, the Social Security, Medicare, understand that and are growing in their fear that unless we do something, they indeed will be hurt. But I think that you…