Medicare's finances are strong.

The testimony clearly reveals the need to fix this broken Tax Code and make America far more competitive.

We want our companies competing in every corner of the globe and winning.

Our first hearing revealed a number of significant abuses, or potential abuses, of power by the IRS.

This is about abuse of power.

And what you have described is the long arm of the Federal Government coming in to you, coming in to your organization, and essentially telling you, we'll tell you what to think, we'll tell you how to pray. Heaven help us. Heaven help us.

I think what is the most alarming and what is the most scary is that when you allow the government to go so far and you don't stop them, they go farther.

I think monetary policy has limits, and QE, quantitative easing, has run its course.

I think the Fed played a critical role in calming the financial crisis.

I do not know that I agree with the assertion that everything good in the economy... has occurred because of adroit monetary policy.

In the near term, these extraordinary monetary actions become an enabler of bad fiscal policy, allowing President Obama and Congress to avoid the tough and necessary decisions.