We have had a very good hearing, the results [of which] will determine if the Venezuelan government will carry out its threat to suspend U.S. airlines' flights.

It's very highly endangered, in the Coachella Valley especially. The next step, hopefully, is that the government will stop delaying and do the right thing for the lizard.

The biggest thing I keep hearing is that the government is telling the tribe that they need to be using this water or else it will end up going to someone else who has a use for it.

If you have a value-added tax you will have bigger government. When the dust settled 10 years in the future, we would have the same income tax as we do now and a giant money machine called (a value-added tax).

We just disagree with being denied a hearing on venue. We are obliged to try to get in front of the issue as quickly as we can so not to put things in more disarray than they already are.

The government reform committee has a hearing scheduled for next week and Rep. [Henry] Waxman would prefer to offer the measure in the committee.