Bob Goodlatte actually said...

"the House of Representatives has voted to cut off the funding not for programs that help farmers comply with existing regulations, that keep cattle out of streams and so on, but simply to cut off the ..."

"But let me also suggest to you that if had not been for Federal meddling and for Federal policy related to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, there wouldn't have been a real estate bubble in Arizona."

"I believe he is correct. That is why we are here today because the Congress has ignored every other mechanism, and the most powerful mechanism we have is a constitutional amendment."

"The challenge here that we are trying to deal with is: are we as a country going to balance our budget by wise policy or are we going to allow cataclysmic financial failure to balance it for us, and t..."