Tom Reed: “I think what we are hearing here is a lot of rhetoric, a lot of politics. You know what? I am sick and tired of that.”

Our principles in this mission are simple: Long-term economic growth by encouraging work, not penalizing it; equal treatment for public servants; acting now to defend those future generations' benefits; and protecting the most vulnerable…

Many of my Republican colleagues, conservative colleagues that just don't trust the system. They don't trust the media, they don't trust the election process, and that is a fundamental threat to our future existence and we have to overcome…

I think we really need to reach out to the people on the front line and say, 'Okay, how would you judge yourself to say if you are effective or not in impacting lives in a positive way,' and then hold people accountable to their own…

I care about those people. Those are millions of people that are going to wake up, and the best we are doing right now in Washington, D.C. is to say we are not even putting it in our budget, we are not even going to address it as a crisis…