If we don't have the ability to retain good staff because we can't pay them what they want to be paid, they will either gravitate to the private sector if they are just interested in making money, but if they want to stay in government…

We are working together in a bipartisan manner. We both believe that foreign policy needs to be bipartisan wherever possible.

I want to enthusiastically endorse everything that Chairman Royce has said.

I think that leaves us all in the House of Representatives a lot poorer in more ways than one.

When Chairman Royce and I were in Asia a few weeks ago, we raised with the Chinese leadership the situation in North Korea.

The recent nuclear test conducted by the North was a dangerous provocation that raised tensions in Northeast Asia.

I am one of the few Members of Congress that have been to North Korea, and I have been there twice.

The North Korean regime would do better to help its own people and give them the things that they need.

I think sequestration is bad policy. I voted against it, and I continue to believe that indiscriminate, across-the-board cuts are a terrible and counterproductive way to deal with our fiscal situation.

I couldn't agree with him more. We are working together in a bipartisan manner.

Our ability to do that will be severely undermined if we have to absorb yet another round of significant cuts to the committee budget.

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

It's an absolute disgrace that we're going home. We should stay here until 'The Sequester' has ended. This is a stupid way to do it.

I think that it is clear to me that Indian Point should be shut down.

The sequester looms. Programs are going to be cut, and people are going to suffer--and what has this House done today under the Republican leadership? We've passed three bills. We've brought up three bills, one of which is a motion to…

In closing, I just want to say that we can hear that Members on both sides of the aisle are speaking with one voice in unison, and I urge, again, the Congress to speak on a bipartisan basis to say that this is not acceptable and that we…

I believe they are, but how do we really know?

Unless these issues are addressed in a meaningful way, there is a risk of further radicalization in the north and prolonged conflict along ethnic lines.

I think it's very timely and very good that we're doing this now.

There is no question that the Sustainable Growth Rate formula is seriously flawed and needs to be permanently replaced.

If we can find a way to pay for military flyovers at parades and professional sporting events, then surely we can cover the cost of aiding a close ally in an operation that supports U.S. national security interests.

We've spent tens of millions of dollars, almost 10 years of training African troops in Western Africa and particularly in Mali.

This morning, I attended the funeral of former Congressman and former mayor Ed Koch in New York City. Ed was larger than life. He was a great mayor of the city of New York, a fantastic Congressman before that, and a personal friend of mine…

I believe in an 'all of the above approach' to energy independence, but we must include renewable energy as part of the mix.

We can no longer afford to ignore climate change and I am hopeful that this Committee will seriously deal with the issue.