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We the People...

On "Mensa Members" in Congress

"My fear is that the whole island [Guam] will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize." —Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)

"Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we’d like to be and singing ‘Kumbaya’ is another day we’re not punching Bill O’Reilly in the nose." —Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) 

"The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation [ObamaCare] that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people." —Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)

"Whether the guy who did this [parked car bomb in Times Square], or the people who did this were with some Islamic terrorist group or whether they were some right-wing nut group or whether they were by themselves, in one sense it doesn't matter." —Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) 

In a bid to stem taxpayer losses for bad loans guaranteed by federal housing agencies Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) proposed that borrowers be required to make a 5% down payment in order to qualify. His proposal was rejected 57-42 on a party-line vote because, as Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) explained, “passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”