Rick Lazio: “Mr. Speaker, this moment culminates 2 days of debate about two different visions of America. The first vision is the…”

The middle class has done incredibly poorly under Barack Obama, under eight years. They don't want another eight years of going backwards in terms of their income.

Yes, I mean, so Santos is a professional con man. And now we have a con man, a true con man, sitting in Congress. And if you love the institution of Congress, you can't tolerate that.

I'm calling for just a transparency, a sense of where the money is coming from.

And really in the end for Governor Christie, what he has to salvage coming out of all this is the perception that he is a straight-shooting, honest politician. And that's the most important thing that he has got to focus on.