Blaine Luetkemeyer: “I understand the need for the minimum wage, and I think, to me, it is a testimony on the lack of an economy.”

I thank the chairman for yielding and thank him for managing the floor today. I was supposed to do that, and I got stuck in a snowstorm and slid all the way here, but I am here and glad to be here. Before us today are a number of bills…

You are making up a word and then using it to go out and enforce something that doesn't exist.

Do you understand what the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is all about?

We have a job to do. We have to take that responsibly and do our job responsibly and hold people accountable.