Madam Speaker, I would like to, at this time, extend happy birthday wishes to Gloria Joseph, a community organizer, public servant, matriarch, and Ph.D of haute cuisine. I wish her happy birthday. Both of these women are ultimate public…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Cleone Creque. ``Cle,'' as many of us call her, was the first female in the Virgin Islands to be elected to territorywide office after she was elected Senator-at-Large in the Virgin Islands…

Yes. TSA is coordinating with the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Institute of Civil Aeronautics of Cuba (IACC) to ensure that security for forthcoming scheduled air service between our countries meets TSA's requirements.

We thoroughly respect the work of GAO, but do not agree that a GAO review prior to the commencement of scheduled commercial flights to Cuba is necessary or advisable.

If the Cuban Government would disallow Federal air marshals on their flights to and from the United States to Cuba, would that be a deal-killer for Homeland Security?

I live in a district that is not part of the targeted area, the UASI area or things of that nature, but I live in an area that has a tremendous diversity of religious worshippers.

I am interested in defining this, the individual that is radicalized by home-grown, home-developed, racist-oriented groups and then goes out and commits a crime that results in the loss of life to more than 1 person, more than 4 people.

Just in closing, and there is also that third element that is not just anti-Government, but biased, racist, and what have you, and that represents a threat and a terrorist threat to communities that are nonviolent communities, that are…

So will you be sharing that information back and forth with Homeland Security, because they do present a threat to the homeland?

One of the concerns that I have is that there are people who are influenced by these groups that hate African Americans or hate Muslims or hate gay community members and have a political agenda to eliminate as many of them as they can.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the so-called Conscience Protection Act. Despite its name, this bill actually does the opposite. It would infringe upon the beliefs and values of women across…

Mr. Chairman, despite technological improvements, we know that extracting, transporting, and burning oil and gas is a dirty and dangerous business. There is simply no disputing that. Our reliance on these outdated fuel sources is placing…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for yielding. I am beginning to feel a little bit like ``Groundhog Day.'' Unfortunately, no matter what Bill Murray does, the result seems to be the same. We keep changing team members, strategies…

I think it is abundantly clear, as I said a little bit earlier, that we can do better.

This is one case that shows how serious this situation is and how, when there is failure--and I do consider there are some failures here, something went wrong, a lot went wrong--but we have got to deal with this.

I just want to tell you I think we can do better.

I was especially pained to hear that because of the actions of the Haitian Government and Haitian officials, someone who everybody agreed should not be in this country was allowed back on our streets to do more harm.