But as Ms. Tucker pointed out, we have cut their budget $350 million.

I think it has everything to do with today's hearing.

Those of you watching on C-SPAN just heard from my friend from Tennessee the unwillingness of the Republican side of the aisle to even recognize that elections have consequences, that, in fact, the President won reelection decisively…

I applaud both Congressman Wolf and Congressman Latham in their efforts to shine light on this troubling revelation.

I certainly support voting rights for the District of Columbia.

We ought to consider changing that governing structure so that Virginians have more of a say.

When it comes to the fiscal cliff, I actually hope you're right. I hope you will be so busy that you will have no time to think of anything else. But I do want to congratulate you on this rule and on your tenure here in the House. You will…

I also applaud Secretary LaHood's proactive leadership and his commitment not only to overseeing but, more importantly, actively assisting MWAA in implementing those needed reforms.

I commend the leadership of Congressmen Wolf and Latham in requesting that IG Scovel initiate an audit of MWAA operations.

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts. I also want to praise my colleague from California. This is one of the last rules Mr. Dreier will be managing here on the floor.

You have approached issues with judicious analysis, you have avoided strident headlines, you have avoided bitter partisanship.

I think we ought to hold ourselves to the same standards of the efficiencies that can be achieved through competition.

So we are having this hearing as those investigations have not completed their work or provided their findings?

We are trying to transition from Qadhafi to something we hope is more democratic.

It seemed a very volatile situation in terms of too many people with too many weapons, lots of militia.

It is very serious business when tragedies occur in a dangerous world.

Is it possible that I missed some fundamental shift in philosophy during the Republican Convention last month? I thought my Republican colleagues actually favored states' rights and empowering our governors. I thought my Republican…

We have to protect U.S. interests and not run pell-mell into yet another war in the Middle East.

I am distressed that the administration is not sending witnesses at the request of the subcommittee.

I am going to lose my chance to act independently, to defend my country by myself.

I just don't think that is acceptable.

Questioning the motivation of the President of the United States with respect to Israel and actually saying he is compromising the security of another sovereign state is a very serious charge.

What does it mean that there is clear and documented evidence that the ISI, the Pakistani ISI, has long provided overt protection, including security protection, to leaders of the Haqqani network within the Pakistani borders?

I also want to commend the State Department for declaring the Haqqani network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, however long overdue that designation might have been.

the Haqqani network operates with impunity in certain parts of Pakistan with the absolute knowledge of the ISI.