Jodey Arrington: “I was unavoidably detained by a media hit across the Capitol complex. I would have been a strong ``yes'' on rollcall No.…”

I thank the chairman and commend Mr. Cole for his commitment to controlling costs in the stewardship of taxpayers' hard-earned treasure. Meanwhile, my Democratic colleagues are demanding an audacious $1.4 trillion in new spending or they…

just the bombs, bullets and battlefield readiness for our men and women in uniform to finish the fight successfully and return home safely — that’s it.

they had the requisite applications to have an Article V convention of the States, to rein in us, the knuckleheads that refuse to accept that it is not a Democratic problem or a Republican problem. It is an institutional problem that…

Mr. Speaker, just, again, setting the record straight for the American people, the only moneys we are spending are moneys that the Democrats in the House and Senate agreed with us to spend to operate the Department of Homeland Security…