Jeff Duncan

Clearly, science has taken a back seat to ideology with this administration--THAT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED NOW.

I think the idea of mandating a certain number of non-conflicted experts on advisory panels is a wonderful idea.

I hope we make some good decisions here so we can help this country to boom in the years ahead.

The current wait time is an average of 282.6 days.

ICE released a bunch of illegal aliens this week due to sequestration. So how do you think that is going to be viewed by our neighbors?

Low taxes, government spending to--limiting government spending to 4 percent of GDP or less.

Just shifting gears in the remaining time, going back to, I think, a question from earlier, what is Russia's role in the region?

Are you aware of any sanction violations in the region that this committee might need to be aware of?

Well, it seems to me the Chairman is trying to move in the right direction, trying to do something about this problem in his bill and giving the CIOs more flexibility or more power and along with that would hopefully have to come more…

One of the main problems in Government is there is no incentive to save money so much of it is squandered.

Now, my wife and I have three cars, two of them have well over 100,000 miles on them, the third one has, I think, 98,000 miles on it, but they are still doing real well.

I think Americans are receiving mixed signals when it comes to border security and immigration.

If we wait too long here to get the timber levels to a manageable amount, we are going to lose all the infrastructure facilities that use wood.

Chairman McCaul is planning to have a full committee hearing on cybersecurity sometime in the very near future.

I think, when you talk about operational control, it needs to be to the point of safety and security of those ranchers in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, California, feel safe to leave their children at home on their property.

Congress can better respond to this and prioritize our resources to focus on those threats that I think we could all agree are a lot more existential in nature?

Oversight to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent effectively is an important part and important role of Congress.

I passed a bill, signed by the President, dealing with the Iranian threat in the Western Hemisphere.

I think that is something that we need to look into.

There is a lot of people and companies getting ridiculously rich off of Medicare and Medicaid.

I can tell you almost every Federal contract with every Federal department and agency has some sort of sweetheart insider-type deal.

I agree with the gentlewoman from California that this is a very important subject.

I have concern about the National Flood Insurance Program. Because I read recently that 15 of the largest insurance companies are making a real killing off of that program.

I, for one, think it is way past time that we start putting our own country and our own people first once again.

Well, we have to do more in this way because this debt problem gets worse and worse.