[The Republican leadership is] trying to salvage its flagging fortunes by making the energy industry its scapegoat, ... nothing less than central planning of our economy.

The ink is barely dry, and the Republican leadership is already moving to create new loopholes in the system,

If you were a president, you couldn't have asked for more than he's [historically] gotten from these [Republican leadership] guys.

We have five chairmen on our bill from the Republican conference, and that's very important. We're where we been trying to get to for three years, and that is to say to the leadership: "Listen, let's discuss this and let's come out with a bill this year that protects patients in reference to managed care." That's right where we are.

well over an hour here . . . while the (Republican) leadership variously cajoled, bribed, browbeat, et cetera, a few Republicans who wanted to have it both ways - who wanted to give people the impression they were opposed to (the Central American Free Trade Agreement) while they were ready to cave in for sufficient inducement.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.