My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

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

The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.