Jim Sensenbrenner

You know, meanwhile the price of gas has gone up by 100 percent on your watch. And this is unacceptable.

the price of gas has gone up 100 percent in the last three years, and that is going to retard the economy coming back faster.

When President Bush left office, the average price of gas was $1.85. Now, it is at $3.65 and going up.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I want to state at the beginning that I deeply appreciate my cosponsor of this legislation, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters). This is a…

Isn't it just as wrong to do it indirectly as it is directly?

I think when we are talking about the legalities of this, we had better be darned sure that people are not fined for protecting their well-held religious beliefs.

This is not an issue of a single religious denomination. A lot of this is centered around what the Catholic Church teaches.

I imagine it will be under consideration until after the election, and then it will probably be litigated to an even greater extent than it is being litigated now.

Every time a VAWA reauthorization has come up, there has been overwhelming bipartisan support for it.

One of the ways we can keep the money flowing to help victims is to make sure it is not wasted in duplication of effort.

this shows that the programs work.

The time of the gentlewoman has expired.

You know, I can say that in terms of how we intended to draft this legislation it would be to allow the judge to impose a fine and probation in lieu of a prison term.

We have got two problems with the penalties for violating administrative regulations.

This is the first time I have been praised by a witness that has been called by my friends on the minority.

there is only one alternative that Congress has, and it is called impeachment

I think that some heads should roll. And I do agree with Senator Grassley that Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny Breuer should be fired.

The American people need the truth. They haven't gotten the truth from what has been coming out of the Justice Department in the last year.

you have got to get this done much more quickly than plugging the holes that COINTELPRO ended up showing existed

I hope that we will have some much better answers. Otherwise I can see another money pit coming up because the Space Station sure was that.

Well, you know, the fear that I have is that you are in charge of a program that is going to end up gobbling up resources that are available to other NASA programs just like the Space Station did.

So what you are telling the Committee is from now on in we shouldn't believe any early estimates before we start appropriating money, and we should get an actual proposal and see what is going to happen based on that?

I hate to be the skunk at the lawn party, but somebody has got to be the skunk before we have to go over and vote.

I have heard this before with the International Space Station, is that we threw a lot of money into the International Space Station, and it was only getting the Russians to do something.

I have a limited amount of time. If I have time left, I will be happy to yield. This year, so as not to disadvantage themselves, none--that means none--of the Republican primary candidates have signed up for Presidential Election Campaign…