Senator Grassley recognized that fact, that because Members of Congress and their staff were now going to be forced to purchase a plan either created by the Act or under an exchange created by the Act, they were not going to be allowed to…

that is troubling and I want to drill down on that a little bit further.

The Senate could have voted for the Grassley Amendment 3564 that would have allowed that employer contribution.

the House Oversight Committee was forced to resort to a subpoena, which, from my standpoint, that is something I am going to do as a very last resort.

the only way we can fulfill that responsibility, which we take very seriously, is to have a cooperative relationship

Under the Affordable Care Act, and Senator Vitter states it in his letter, it specifically was called out in the law that Members of Congress and their staff had to purchase insurance in a plan.

we worked tirelessly trying to get the Office of Inspector General of VA to comply with our subpoena

this is something that the American people really get upset about, when Members of Congress exempt themselves from the very same law that they impose on the rest of the American public.

I want to make sure that this nomination can move forward. So, this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.

And, again, that is what we are trying to show here with the balance sheet, and these numbers are just incomprehensible.

An undue emphasis on building walls and visa requirements is not going to stop that.

I am telling you, if this hit is executed, it will be known all over the world. The people will be scared and the operations will increase. This way, we will be igniting it. I mean, we are marching at the front of war and we will eliminate…

I have to commend. You are the one that was a bulldog on that.

Not passing a budget is a national scandal, hopefully the American people understand what a national scandal this is.

Now, this was a plot in the Masonic Temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Further in the complaint, Mr. Hamzeh says that he would be 100 percent happy if he is able to slaughter 30 human beings.

The trust fund to the Federal Government has no financial value.

I have always thrown out probably less than 10 percent of the Federal Government actually shut down.

In Medicare, it is about $34 trillion.

So, basically, what you have got in Social Security, somewhere around $13 trillion net present value, unfunded liability, and in Medicare you have got about $28 trillion.

The Inspectors General do great work, issue all these reports.

the deficit over the next 30 years projected by CBO is $103 trillion, about $10 trillion the first decade, $28 trillion the second, $65 trillion the third.

I think that is the very definition of unsustainable.

Wouldn't that be also one of those common-sense reforms in terms of management to put the Federal budget on budget?

I think another excellent idea is a 2-, maybe even a 3-year budget.

Sharia law is not particularly compatible with Western democracies, and part of assimilation is coming in and assimilating into our rule of law.