I will look forward to their support in November as well, and I'm the same voice on that.

There seems to be this assumption that it will be so much more efficient, it will be so much cheaper, it will be so much better if we will just federalize this.

If you like it, you can keep your plan.

I would have to concur. This is an incredibly sad day. This administration that started talking about transparency has now sunk to the level of actually concealing documents. Never has an Attorney General been held in contempt of Congress…

Fast and Furious has moved to slow and tedious. We have got to have those documents to be able to finish up this investigation. It should have long since been done. Eric Holder told our chairman that he has these documents, but he's using…

This is a truly sad day. This is not stunning, as I have heard. This is a deliberative process that we've tried to work through. We have a border agent that's been killed. We have hundreds of Mexicans that have been killed. And the…

Americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them.

it is essential that the States, cities, counties do their responsibility and the Federal Government does theirs.

Yes. Actually, in 2001, the President did Executive Order 13586. That executive order extended that out to all agencies dealing with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. So it does extend this out to the Department of Transportation as well, as…

By President Clinton at the very end, in early January of 2001--January 10, actually.

This may seem like a very simple, straightforward amendment, but we do have an issue in construction. In the summer all across America, the cliff swallow and the barn swallow, which is a very common migratory bird--this is not an…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill before the short title, insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the funds made available by this Act…

This is not a hearing about a title. This is a hearing about the facts in the case.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers.

if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

This is what makes America a great country is that we do have divergent opinions.

I would--I would say that it might be good to go through some of the notes in the testimony.

We would be glad to have a fair hearing for all people involved.

Americans have the right to know the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

I come from an energy State, a State that has done hydraulic fracking since the 1940s. It is a State that has beautiful lands, clean air, and clean water. But energy requires a tremendous amount of capital, and so it needs consistency in…

I thank my colleague from Tennessee. It is interesting for me to be able to hear the indignation and saying we've got to get this bill done. It's important that it gets resolved, and I would have to say I completely agree with my…

It is interesting to talk about an open or closed rule when we are discussing something with the Affordable Care Act. We all know what an open process that it was developed under and how wide open and inclusive that that was. Let's talk…

the goal of this is that it is right the first time, not that we are paying chasing

Yeah. They are really going in looking for overpayments, obviously, on that.

As a Federal Government, we are designed to serve the people, rather than them serve us.