"The horrible attack in Orlando cries out for meaningful response from this Committee."
"The Constitution was enacted to strengthen government power to enable the central government to lay taxes, and to function effectively."
"Are we obligated to independently investigate the allegations, do our own fact-finding, conduct interviews and depositions?"
"With national elections looming just months away, the urgent need for election reform goes unanswered."
"When the House Judiciary Committee does not do its own fact finding, it undermines the credibility of what it has done."
"With time growing short, it is very difficult to do."
"It seems to me very questionable why you would have... one body can issue decrees... that flout the normal equitable considerations."
"We're all certainly very condemning of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, and we all--our hearts go out to the families and victims of that."
"I appreciate his enlightenment of the district attorney's views of this dilemma that we all face."
"Thank you. Since we've gone a little far afield here, let me do so again very briefly to point out that, among others, Thomas Jefferson, who, among his minor accomplishments, was the Founder of the De..."
"Right now, the largest construction project in the United States is in my district."