I want to make sure that you guys are all talking.

I believe the center is on the right path in seeking to steer individuals away from violence.

This issue is really an issue about the war of ideas. How do we achieve victory on a battleground for the hearts and minds of individuals who not only commit violent actions, but who seek to destroy America, our values, our freedoms, and…

I think America is threatened more by the State Department focusing solely on al-Qaeda.

I just don't want the agency, the State Department or any agency, to get tunnel vision, to be so focused on what you perceive as the threat coming from al-Qaeda that we get blindsided.

I think you need to start focusing on Iran. Just a word of caution.

the easiest thing in the world is to spend other people's money, and that it is far too easy.

Unfortunately it is just far too easy to spend other people's money and when people--or the problem with the Government is when it is not coming out of your own pocket, we have got too many people at the Federal level who are just abusing…

I give thanks to the Natural Resources Committee for their hard work on this issue. As my good friend, Jeff Landry, the Congressman from Louisiana reminds us, drilling equals jobs. And Republicans have a plan for job creation in America…

the EPA wants Peoria to eliminate as many CSOs as it can afford to eliminate, even though the additional CSOs eliminated... will not result in any meaningful water quality improvements.

they are going to end up hurting a lot of poor and lower income and working people in the process.

But we have to have a little--we need to have a little balance and common sense in here.

But we have talked in this Committee many times about what the environmental policies that were put in place during the late--well, mid-1990s forward, that decimated the timber industry in the Northwest.

Don't you think that in these urban areas, where the forest land bumps up to urban areas, you know, with a little bit of public awareness campaigns about what that smoke means during prescribed burning would go a long way toward saving the…

we have definitely got to get back to best management practices with regard to managing the United States forest lands

the largest forest fire in a generation in South Carolina burned 19,000 acres, $20 million in damage, 76 homes destroyed

we have the Sumter National Forest in my district, and we constantly have complaints from local citizens when the United States Forest Service does control burns

The gist of my concern about drones and unmanned aerial systems is the privacy issue.

I don't want to wait for a crisis situation.

I think we do need a hearing with the FAA to bring them forward and ask questions about what they are doing.

Well, thank you for protecting civil liberties in this country and what you are doing.

You know, last week the President said to American job creators that if you've got a business, you didn't build that; somebody else made that happen. Well, let me tell you, Mr. President, that prior to coming to Congress I ran my own…

Americans know that the government takeover of health care is wrong. They spoke very loudly when the other side of the aisle forced this on America in the last Congress. It was bad policy before the Supreme Court ruled, and it was bad…

I want to point to Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion when he talks about the rights of the sovereign States.

It baffles me that when we can grant licenses for 30 or 50 years... we require something that is so complex, expensive, and lengthy in the re-licensing process.