the mandate that the Church provide and pay for services that they are opposed to brings it in contradiction to the First Amendment.

I believe the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act is unconstitutional to begin with.

I think we are at a point where we are trampling on the Constitution for no real reason.

I urge us to be very cautious as we start to take away what is one of our fundamental freedoms.

Possible listing of two lizards in Texas that are going to put road blocks in front of, and drive costs up of the drilling and production of oil and natural gas.

I'm concerned that we're taking the wrong approach to this.

The Endangered Species Act has morphed into Endangering the Human Species Act.

I think that's the reason that many of my colleagues--myself included--have suggested it might be time for you to resign.

Short of praying for rain, I would appreciate if you or your staff could get with my office and the rest of the Texas delegation to see what, if anything, can be done to improve that situation.

My concern with that--and as we saw in the earthquake up here--the cell phone network, especially in a time of disaster, is substantially more fragile than we would like to believe.

I do think the States need to know what they are going to be responsible for in order so they can do appropriate planning.