... Trent Lott is not a racist. Trent Lott is not a man who endorses the concept of segregation. He is a man who misspoke here. |
[Don't worry, said Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, a leading House conservative. Cutting taxes for the rich is the best anti-poverty program.] I'm mindful of what a pipe fitter once said to President Reagan, ... 'I've never been hired by a poor man.' A growing economy is in the interest of every working American, regardless of their income. |
[INDIANAPOLIS -- It's the kind of statement a politically safe Republican facing a perennial gadfly opponent in 2006 can make.] We're winning the war in Iraq, ... We've never lost a tactical engagement with the enemy. We've never even lost a platoon. |
As a conservative, I believe the only real check on government is a free press, ... And as someone who believes in limited government, I believe nothing is more conservative than promoting and protecting the principle of a free press. |
As we approached, there was a large column of black smoke billowing from the far end of the base, |
Average Americans in all 50 states are reaching into their pocketbooks and investing in relief and recovery efforts. The power and symbol of members of Congress doing that, regardless of the size of the contribution, could be very important. |
Back in Indiana, when a tree falls on your house, first you tend to the wounded, then you start to clean up, and then your family sits down and figures out to pay for it, ... Operation Offset. |
Conservatives are encouraged but not yet satisfied, |
General, I was in Selma, Indiana at the American Legion hall. A lot of guys there are concerned. All they hear is that Americans are being killed they don't feel there is progress, don't feel there is a plan, what do I tell them? |
House conservatives should seek to marry fiscal and ethics reform. It is not enough for us to change the way lobbyists spend their money. We have got to change how we spend the money of the American people. |
I believe 2006 will be the toughest year for the Republican majority since they came to power in 1994, |
I believe in the leadership of this Congress, ... I believe in the men and women who lead the House of Representatives and the Senate. I see them as men and women of integrity and principle, who work every day to bring the ideals of our Founders into the well of the people's house. |
I believe we have an historic opportunity to close this hole in the First Amendment. |
I do know there are some concerns in the entertainment industry about reporting requirements being extended, ... We're in conversations now with the legitimate entertainment industry. |
I think many conservatives are fundamentally opposed to creating universal drug benefits for seniors that would be the first major new entitlement Congress has created in a generation, |