05/02/2011
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"What I cannot do, with all due respect, is support the entire increase that Chairman Waxman has just outlined of 11.4 percent this year and 10 percent next year."
"A budget freeze would not be the end of the world for this committee or for the Congress."
"I understand Chairman Waxman's desire to beef up the staff, and that is understandable as a new chairman."
"I would hope you all would abolish it. Whatever needs to be done, between Mr. Waxman's troops and my scalawag band of troops, we can get it done. We don't need the Select Committee."