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If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

Congress is dysfunctional.

We already spend too few days in Congress working on meaningful legislation; we simply can't afford to waste more time on legislation that doesn't move the needle to improve the lives of everyday Americans.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.