The House members have taken such an unreasonable and impractical approach that they have painted themselves into a corner.

I . . . would advise you and all House members to take greater care with the use of their name by others. Self-government requires not only lawmaking, but submission to those laws.

We had kind of painted ourselves into a corner.

Everything has been so close to him that he's painted into a kind of a corner.

We are faced with a real dilemma.

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.