I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.
I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.
Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.
At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.
There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.
