The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.
Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.
NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.
I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.
We've got to have a functioning government.
We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.
My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.
I have two basic votes before I vote: is it constitutional, and is it in the interests of my people. If the answer is yes to both of them, then I vote for it, and I don't care who authored it.
The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.
Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.
Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.
We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.