And my colleagues, our hearts go out today to those in Oklahoma who are suffering as a result of this storm. I've asked that the flags here in the Capitol complex be lowered to half staff in honor of the victims of this terrible tragedy…

Good morning. Tanner is giving me this look like, Hey, it's just Boehner. Leave him alone. Let me say on behalf of all of my colleagues, welcome. Thank you for your years of service here in this institution. Let me congratulate Ray LaHood…

As John Boehner said, he wants people to go to jail.

the First Amendment is first for a reason, that the Obama administration is going after reporters' phone records, they better have a damned good explanation.

Let me thank my colleague for yielding and congratulate Mr. Ryan and our members of the Budget Committee for a job well done. We have a budget here that will, in fact, balance over the next 10 years after having a debate with our…

It's important for us who feel a responsibility to fight for a cause to recognize that our cause is not advanced if we can't also try to achieve compromise.

Tom never lost that sense of wonder.

We are sent here to do what's right, and sometimes doing what's right is hard and it's not free; and yet that's the measure of leadership.

What a privilege he felt it was to serve.

I hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle complaining about the President's sequester. It is the President that insisted that this sequester be part of the Budget Control Act a year and a half ago. It is the President who has…

We shouldn't have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something.

We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something.

That's why the House has twice passed legislation to replace it with commonsense cuts and reforms that won't threaten public safety, national security or the economy -- or our economy. Once again, the president offered no credible plan…

This is a day of mixed emotions for the House. John Lawrence's retirement means that we're losing a faithful public servant, one of our own. But we can all agree that John deserves some time off after 38 years of working here in the House…

I am quite disappointed that we are not in session next week.

It was never the objective of Gramm-Rudman to trigger sequester.

The fact of the matter is sequestration is something that both sides have their skin in the game.

trying to pick a whale of a fight over the debt ceiling

President Obama missed a great opportunity today to help our economy. This was supposed to be the day that the President submitted his budget to the Congress, but it's not coming. It's going to be late. Some reports say that it could be as…

Let me thank my colleague for yielding, and ask my colleagues today to vote for the No Budget, No Pay Act. You know, the promise here is pretty simple. It says that there should be no long-term increase in the debt limit until there's a…

If you come here humbled by the opportunity to serve, if you have come here to be the determined voice of the people, if you have come here to carry the standard of leadership not demanded by our constituents but by the times, then you…

Fiscal handcuffs on this Congress that are sorely needed.

It seems to be that he wants to make the point that he understands what these Democrats were talking about on the floor, that compromise isn't easy and you don't always get what you want.

But we can't cut our way to prosperity. We need real economic growth.

Fiscal handcuffs on this Congress that are sorely needed.