What this has done is for political expediency of the President, to make him look tough, to fight against the allegations that you've been weak in the past.

Today is day 1,001 since the Senate has passed a budget. In addition to that, Mr. Speaker, the President has notified this body that his budget will also be late this year. Now, that may be a couple days, it may be a week--we don't know…

I recently read about a couple who found out there was a problem in their pregnancy, that their child had not developed all four sections of its heart. So, at 23 weeks, they did a surgery where they reached in with a needle into the womb…

Due to a clerical error, I ask that the name of the gentleman from Michigan, Justin Amash, be removed as a cosponsor from H.R. 3609. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Oklahoma? There was no…

I will tell you, living in Oklahoma City, and if you come through Oklahoma at all, you'll drive around and you'll see our beautiful land, and you'll drink our beautiful water and breath our beautiful air; but you'll also realize that there…

The issue still remains though, the day-to-day operation of nuclear safety, and the decisions that you make are significant in this.

Millions of Americans are jobless. In response, the House of Representatives has passed more than 20 jobs bills. This past July, the North American-Made Energy Security Act urged President Obama to issue a final permitting decision on the…

If the administration has determined in these areas you have to promote abortions or we don't give you U.S. funds, say it.

The process was delayed for months while the agencies struggled to find ways, in our opinion, to inject a new criteria to alter the funding process.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government.

Notwithstanding that, a political appointee, unconfirmed, effectively a czar, interjected themselves and made a decision that changed the outcome of this grant.

27 times the United States Constitution has been amended. It's something we do rarely, and it's something that we should think through in the process. We do it only because it is absolutely required and we have common agreement across the…

I raise the assumption at the end of the day, when the study is released, you allow people to be able to review it.

We have done this study, here is this information, Congress. If you want us to regulate these areas, here are the information.

The study assumes that you are going to provide information and research, but not new regulations based on that.

In my district, we disagree a lot about football, but we strongly agree that the Federal Government must balance this budget. As a freshman, I've seen firsthand this body will only make the hard decisions when they have to make the hard…

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

Rebuilding the wheel is not important. If we can take Web sites, we can take certifications and adapt them, that is much preferred.

I have multiple contractors that I have spoken to around the central Oklahoma area that have said the same thing to me.

Let the record reflect the witness answered in the affirmative.

I am glad to do it firm fixed price, but it is going to cost more, because I don't know what the risk is involved.

The Oversight and Government Reform Committee exists to secure two fundamental principles.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government accountable to taxpayers.

We will probably do several rounds of questions back and forth, so this will be an ongoing conversation.

But that is the accountability on the other side. And what I am asking is, how do we get that?