Tom Rice actually said...

"I really believe that my whole focus is on making America competitive."

"Nothing is going to happen here if it is not bipartisan. Absolutely nothing is going to happen, and everybody has to come to that realization."

"if we could just solve about--there is really not that many--five or six major problems that we face, we could unleash the American economy."

"But I also represent three of the poorest counties in South Carolina. And they have been struggling for a long, long time."