U.S. State Attorneys General

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana will be postponed. {time} 0020 Amendment Offered by Mr. Rokita

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount made available by this Act…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. {time} 2130 It is now in order to consider amendment No. 55…

I appreciate both gentlemen's comments and their remarks and their tone and their tenor. I respectfully disagree because I think that, again, not a single uniformed person is being affected. This has nothing to do with that. I think 1…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. {time} 2120 Amendment No. 54 Offered by Mr. Campbell The…

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has 2 minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 548, after line 8, add the following new section: SEC. 1115. TERMINATION OF HUMAN, SOCIAL, AND CULTURE…

I think it's important that we not try to undermine programs that have helped a middle class family afford college for their child.

I hope you move aggressively on the issue of getting people who get paid a good chunk of money to help file returns for folks who are getting a very modest return

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And you obviously need to have more of these hearings, Mr. Chairman. They are stimulating.

I think we all want to get to a point where we can get to some place where you all will come to us.

May I inquire as to the time on both sides? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Indiana has 3\3/4\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Arizona has 6\1/4\ minutes remaining.

I see where the gentleman from Minnesota is going with his question, and I yield myself 10 seconds just to answer it. He claims responsibility in this budget. The only way they can possibly balance, and I don't agree that they will balance…

With responsible, gradual reforms to the drivers of our debt, like Medicare and Social Security, the Ryan budget will balance. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.

The ``people's budget''? This budget, if enacted, would end this country as we know it. This budget increases spending, Mr. Chairman, by $13 trillion over 10 years. It takes $16 trillion more from the American people over 10 years through…

It sounds like we are piling on top of a broken system.

As my Texas colleague and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith, has said, perhaps the most valid criticism of E-Verify is the identity theft loophole.

I would hope that this is one immigration-related issue where both sides could find common ground.

I introduced H.R. 5515, the New Employee Verification Act, or NEVA.

I don't believe there is a person in this Congress and, I suspect, sitting here in this audience who wouldn't agree that as a sovereign Nation, we have to do everything we can to make sure that we understand who is in our country and who…

As we work forward and make progress in trying to improve this program, the ultimate solution to what we are trying to address through E-Verify is to reform our broken immigration system.

Many would like to expand the E-Verify system, but we should not do so unless we first address the kinds of problems with the existing system that is identified in today's hearing.

Well, I hope, with your good assistance, the three of you, that this perhaps will be the last time we have to hold a hearing on identity theft, because perhaps this time Congress could get together, working with our chairman, to finally…