There is a new way to fight war in Afghanistan. U.S. commanders are publicly telling the Taliban when we are coming and where we are going to be to wage war. This, while Karzai tries to cut a deal with the Taliban. Meanwhile, a large…

I believe that Congress, though, needs to speak and to have a debate on Afghanistan and to be able to decide in our wisdom, if we so choose, to get out of Afghanistan, which is what I hope that we do.

Now, I understand that you didn't oversee the agency when this abuse of power took place. But you do now.

This Thursday, I will bring to the House a resolution which will finally give this House a chance to debate the war in Afghanistan. We now have about 1,000 U.S. troops who have perished in the conflict. We have many innocent civilians who…

The Washington Post reports that nearly $1 billion a year in cash, suspected to include U.S. aid, opium trade receipts, or both, is moving from Afghanistan to Dubai, where friends and family of Afghanistan's President Karzai have…

I rise in opposition to H.R. 3961, legislation to extend the expired provisions of the PATRIOT Act. The three provisions being extended today include the ``roving wiretaps,'' which allow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to issue…

I think it's critical that we track this financial reform legislation as it moves through the Senate to make sure that the provisions that were put in by Representative Paul are not going to be stripped. I would not want the Senate to…

I question the wisdom of moving on this bill, absent a provision to audit the Fed prior to the Senate acting because suppose the Senate, which has the ability to go any direction on this, suppose the Senate strips out the provision that I…

Yesterday, I introduced H.R. 4414, a bill that imposes a 75 percent tax on the outside bonuses bankers are paying themselves from windfall profits earned from massive Federal Government support. This bill is necessary because bankers are…

It is said that one out of every three American homeowners is underwater with their mortgage, meaning that they owe more on their mortgages than the house in which they live is worth. One out of every three Americans. We know that this…

I have introduced H.R. 4414, the Responsible Bankers Act of 2010. Now, many of you know I voted against both pieces of TARP legislation. It is time that America got their money back and imposed a 75 percent tax on the bonuses that bankers…

It's not -- it is not up to the United States to be able to choose the government of any other country. And every time we try to do that, we end up in a mess.

No. And for that reason the United States should get out of Afghanistan. Stop the escalation. Congress needs to do its role and stop funding.

It's not up to the United States to be able to choose the government of any other country.

No. And, for that reason, the United States should get out of Afghanistan, stop the escalation.

$13 trillion to Wall Street, money for Wall Street, money for war. Where is the money for work in America?

Thirteen trillion dollars for Wall Street, money for Wall Street, money for war, where is the money for work in -- in America?

Congress should reject any more money for war. Congress should start focusing on things here's at home.

I am mad at Wall Street, but I am a lot madder at the people who gave them the keys to drive our economy off a cliff.

It is not capitalism, it is crony capitalism.

I want my country back. Let us get the government out of the auto business, out of the banking business, and out of the compensation design business.

This is not good for the rule of law, democracy or capitalism.

We, the people, have rights. The Constitution exists to restrain government, not to empower it.

It is a charade of political window dressing to make crony capitalism look respectable.

It may be a mystery how to fix it. I don't think so but the fact that it exists and the fact that the children in poor and minority communities are being harmed in a disproportionate fashion also is well documented.