Mr. Speaker, I rise today on this first day of summer to recognize June as National Dairy Month. From calcium to potassium, dairy products, like milk, contain nine essential nutrients that may help to better manage your weight and reduce…

Madam Speaker, recently, I introduced a resolution with Congresswoman Niki Tsongas to designate July as Park and Recreation Month. It is a fitting time to celebrate our Federal, State, and local public parks and recreation systems because…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 4760, Securing America's Future Act. Mr. Speaker, our immigration system is broken. For decades, administrations have offered temporary fixes or chosen to not enforce certain provisions of the…

Mr. Speaker, the President created a humanitarian crisis that inflicts lasting trauma on children when he mandated that they be taken from their parents at the border. The President's executive action just trades one trauma for another by…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, as you heard, H.R. 4760 is fatally flawed. We are here only today debating it because the Republican leadership was essentially extorted by extremists within its ranks…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the closed rule for H.R. 4760. I was proud to sign on to the bipartisan discharge petition to force a vote on a Dreamer…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Houston, Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

Mr. Speaker, we all recognize the sovereignty of our country, but we also recognize its diversity, and we all are immigrants. So let's get over it. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Miss Rice). Miss RICE…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Demings), the retired chief of police of Orlando, Florida.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 4760, a bill that doubles down on the President's cruel zero-tolerance policy. This harsh anti-immigrant, anti-American bill is the realization of…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this closed rule and the sham underlying legislation. As the Ranking Member on Homeland Security, one truism that I hear is that you do not negotiate with terrorists. Yet, that is exactly what the House…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this fake DACA bill, a bill that we just found out 10 minutes ago that we are not going to even vote on tomorrow. So all this time, all of the…

Madam Speaker, I would just like to say, I think that the President has taken the Dreamers, the little children, the asylum- seeking families as hostages for the anti-immigrant provisions in this bill. It has been mentioned that we have a…

Madam Speaker, this is an anti-immigrant bill. It slashes legal immigration. It will injure the ag industry. It criminalizes nearly the entire undocumented population. It will undermine public safety and removes critical protections for…

Mr. Speaker, I would urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to take a step back here. Your President has left you out on a limb. He just sawed that limb off for a bill that does damage to the country for a policy that he now has…

Mr. Speaker, there are lots wrong with these bills. I will discuss that during the debate on the bills. This is about the rule. For my friends on the other side of the aisle, they need to understand that this is a self-executing rule. When…

Mr. Speaker, this bill is a step in the wrong direction in so many ways. I wish that we had had an opportunity to sit down, reason together, and come up with a plan that really serves our country. That didn't happen. Here is what the…

Mr. Speaker, this bill wouldn't end the separation of children from their parents, but it would also provide that the parents could be put in jail with their children. The alternative, which is false, seems to be to put the mother in the…