You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.