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I'm still on the Trump train.
The census should not be political.
I'm doing a good job in Washington.
It's about going to where your voters are.
We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.
Every member of Congress has highways in their district.
I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
I serve and answer to the Texans I represent - not the Hollywood elite.
The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.
What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?
I am running on the fact that I am doing a good job listening to people.
There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.
Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.
In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.
I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.
I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.
I'm not going to sell Donald Trump short. I think the American people saw something in him.
I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.
I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.
I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.
You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.
I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.
How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?
As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.
Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?
Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.
Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.
Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.
Why should guns be treated different than toasters? If your defective product injures somebody, you're responsible for it.
You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.
I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to work hard to earn the 'for Blake' votes.
It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.
Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.
I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.
The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans... no longer makes sense.
The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.
My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.
I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.
I think it's really tough being in Donald Trump's shoes, when you've got the media looking to put the worst possible spin to everything that you say.
I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.
I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.