What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.