Rep. Tim Burchett

You've got a staffer.

And Republicans, we're supposed to be less government.

I look at these, we get these pictures made every year, every couple of years.

I don't know why.

I've never seen the picture.

I'm not going to hang it up in my dadgum office of your committee, you know, and all the people on the committee and then all the staffers behind it.

I counted one time on ours.

I think it was close, in one of my committees, close to 50 people.

And I guess for the Democrats, we get 49 people.

You know, we're supposed to be less government.

So you have a staffer, say that is, and the committees are just too big.

And too many of these chairmen, the biggest mistake they make is we're going to be different.

We're going to be different.

And what do they do?

They keep almost every dadgum staffer.

And the staffer is already plugged in with the lobbyists, with the K Street crowd.

And they're the ones probably getting a little trip somewhere, maybe going out for a steak dinner, going out for drinks, and they're compromised.

And so I can't tell you how many times I've seen a good bill become a study bill.

Who's paying for that?

And why?