The government reform committee has a hearing scheduled for next week and Rep. [Henry] Waxman would prefer to offer the measure in the committee.

I probably wouldn't have expressed it that way, but I enjoyed hearing it.

We are glad that Senator Specter is moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform, ... It is long overdue.

The biggest thing I keep hearing is that the government is telling the tribe that they need to be using this water or else it will end up going to someone else who has a use for it.

This [mining sector reform] must be executed in a manner that is beneficial to mining companies as well as government, particularly at this delicate stage where we want to be perceived as willing to be part and parcel of the global community.

He believes we need to reform government spending.