Requiring a work component for able-bodied people that doesn't get waived by the federal government for respective states is like an 85 percent issue across the board.

So if this doesn't need some reform--I mean if this isn't a program that needs reforms, someone is going to have to show me what would.

$68 billion spent a year on a program where you have millions of people who are able-bodied adults, who don't have to do a darn thing to get taxpayer benefits.

No, we don't. We don't want to cut benefits. We just want to have a work requirement in place that doesn't get waived.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when governments fear the people there is liberty.

This is scary. So this is why we are so focused on this First Amendment, not just the shield law for the press.

We signed on to, my good friend professor Raskin's Free Flow of Information Act which limits the government in compelling a journalist to reveal his or her sources.

When pastors in the pulpit are saying you got to be careful what you say, it'll jeopardize your tax exempt status.

We are both committed to reaffirming our First Amendment freedoms, especially the guarantee, government cannot intimidate or sensor the town crier.

What concerns me is the political pressure that's apparently being brought to bear now on all of these entities and the suggestion that they are buckling under to this myth of some kind of anti-conservative conspiracy.

Well, let me just ask you about that. Because my colleague, Mr. Deutch, raised a very profound concern about the continuing demonization and vilification of families and children who are victimized in episodes of mass gun slaughter.