Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Daniel E. Lungren).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, since its enactment in 2001, the Patriot Act has been the object of so many false allegations and exaggerations that the myths have overshadowed the truth. It is time to…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Lungren), chairman of the House Administration Committee and a senior member of the Judiciary Committee.

The era of Federal bailouts is over.

States are sovereign in our system of federalism and are free to make even very expensive decisions.

Congress should not take money from taxpayers in fiscally healthy States to give to public employee unions in a handful of spendthrift States.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Here are excerpts from the exchange. In response to a couple of questions by Members of Congress, the last question was from Representative John Campbell of California, the Director of the CBO…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds. I just want to point out that the figure we have been using that the health care bill is going to cost 800,000 jobs is not necessarily an old figure. Or maybe I should concede it's a day old…

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble), who is chairman of the Administrative Law Subcommittee.

I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, the American people and American employers know what Washington has not learned: too many regulations impose too many costs and cost too many jobs. The Judiciary Committee is working…