It's just a treat, Congressman Bishop, to have you here with us today talking about a very important subject, something that is on the front of the minds, I think, of many Americans, understanding that we are buying way too much government…

Now I think there were Federalist papers that were written to help make that point and to define the fact that to promote general welfare is not a clause big enough to run tanks through and say that anything that seems like a nice thing to…

We are talking about the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, it sets the whole framework for what this country rests on, and you've got two words that are loaded with meaning. The first one is the general defense. That's national security…

So we were just talking about now you've got the situation with the Federal Government spending a third more than it takes in. So we've got to figure out some way of how we're going to skin this cat. And one way is to just try to take a…

Well, those are some great recommendations here. To reinforce what you've said, I didn't have time to get some of the charts that we normally have printed, but here's some examples. We've got 342 economic development programs. Do you think…

It used to be a very boring place to be a Congressman down here because there were almost no laws on the books. The Federal laws, to begin with, in terms of laws about right and wrong, were, one of them was a law against piracy on the high…

Well, I appreciate your medical expertise and your overview. Obviously, if the Federal Government isn't jumping into taking over all of health care, there is going to be a lot more in the private sector. We will maybe get into that a…

Hey, Doctor, it's a treat to have you on the floor. And I'm going to run over to, moving a little bit from Georgia to the West, to the great State of Utah, and Congressman Bishop, you've joined us on the floor a number of times. And one of…

It is interesting that you talk about, there was a great little short book, and I don't remember the title of it, gentleman, that came out with some of the very facts that you just mentioned, and it was a study of how the government in the…

I think the whole country needs to say a big ``thank you'' to you, because what you are doing is trying to make Congress just a little more efficient and do a few commonsense things. A lot of people might not say this thinking outside the…

When you take a look at the numbers and we're spending a third more than what we're taking in, we know we've got to do some cutting.

I keep thinking an awful lot of Americans must be starting to feel the same way I do: that the government is not a servant anymore; that it's a fearful master. We were warned by the forefathers that if you let your government, your Federal…