But the United States has to insist on its interests in this relationship; otherwise, it is one of unequal partners.

Intellectual theft is epidemic in China, and it must be addressed as we move forward in this relationship.

The U.S.-China relationship is absolutely one of the most important, obviously, in the world, and it is a relationship that must be worked out.

We need to focus, obviously, on our human rights values, as we interact with the Chinese.

Now, you also said a second problem with this, I am sure also unintended, is that we are going to have one heck of a penalty on widows and other survivors.

Mr. Connolly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all for being here.

So, golly, gosh darn, a proposal allegedly designed to save money will cost money.

We must show utter and complete passion for this subject. We must stamp it out.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is not going to be an issue that is going to divide us along party lines at all.

This is unacceptable. If America is about anything, it is about a value system.

My time is up, Mr. Chairman, but I just want to cite H.L. Mencken, who once said that for every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.

I am shocked. That loss of a half a billion grows over time because of the aging workforce.

So, given my brief time, Walt, it is going to cost a half a billion dollars a year to the Postal Service, hardly saving money, and that grows over time.

There are a lot of us in Congress in the same position.

I wish I could say everybody remembers that, but we are not cattle, and we are citizens.

In a democracy, frankly, it seems to me we ought to be arguing about this all the time.

Yesterday by one vote the Republican Budget Committee passed a fend-for-yourself budget that gives Darwinism a bad name. It breaks a bipartisan compromise not even a year old. It voucherizes Medicare, in effect jeopardizing health care for…

he had the gall to actually try to practice law and represent a defendant falsely accused on trumped up charges.

we can't frame this as an either/or. Either we pursue our self-interest very callously and turn a blind eye to all this human rights stuff, or we pursue this high moral ground at the expense of our self-interest. That's a false choice.

I actually believe there is a record of enormous transparency that is unprecedented in the Obama Administration.

it is a horrific example of the worst kind of totalitarian justice, frankly, and it needs to be singled out and condemned.

I personally find the comparison invidious, and upon any examination lacking in any serious comparison.

A Member of Congress from the State Virginia, Opening Statement.

President Obama was trying to protect the security of our troops.

agencies reduced the FOIA backlog, this is a fact, by 40 percent, eliminating 55,000 backlogged FOIA requests.