I think the heavier lifting is the budget-process and earmarks [reform]. Lobbyist reform is blaming somebody else. I just fear that there will be too much blaming and not focus on what we need to do.

The White House wants (immigration reform), and many of us in the House do so as well,

There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of the hurricane recovery effort. Let's face it, after years of uninterrupted growth, the federal government is bloated.

There's a lot of fat to trim. ... I wonder if we've been serving in the same Congress.

If voters want bigger government, sooner or later they're going to return to the genuine article, and that's the Democratic Party,

There was virtually no control at the border. They would go back for birthdays, for Christmas, for holidays, because they could always come back across the border easily.