It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.