Mr. Chairman, in the committee report that accompanies these bills, on page 13 and 14, there are three items that the majority says that the President can't do. One is to defer action for the DREAMers, young people who are brought here…

I think it is important that we recognize that and, as with the doctors, first do no harm.

Well, I remember when we went into the SOPA battle. One of the things that it is important for us to keep in mind is to not suggest things that are technologically impossible and that might actually destroy the inner workings of the…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, this is very clear, the purpose of today's debate. The Take Care Clause is to faithfully execute laws that are passed. This is about standing statute. In fact, this is the centerpiece of the President's…

It has been stunning. And I fear this is going to be used as an argument for even higher payments to Medicare Advantage.

I always ask witnesses... to submit their evidence and data.

access to health care providers, particularly specialists, is becoming a critical issue across our nation.

I take offense to that.

Because my wife has been hired by multiple different hospitals and she gets paid the exact same amount as any other anesthesiologist that they hire.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, more of the same. As with our consideration of the ``ENFORCE Act,'' H.R. 4138, I must note the lack of deliberative process pertaining to consideration of this bill. The gentleman…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to applaud the Minority Business Development Agency on its 45th anniversary. The Minority Business Development Agency was established by executive order on March 5, 1969, and has worked to promote the growth and…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you yielding. Mr. Chairman, as some of my colleagues said so eloquently during last week's Judiciary markup on this bill, that the majority's attempts to turn routine exercises of Presidential…

You said you would definitely get a whole bunch of folks on both sides of the aisle?

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would just like to say that while this legislation and the previous legislation is going nowhere, we should be dealing with the issues that face the American people, the serious…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. First, I want to set the record straight before we get too much revisionist history here. Yesterday in the Rules Committee, the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee, Mr…

Madam Speaker, first, I would like to say that Federal officer may be mentioned many times in the code, but not defined; not defined. Madam Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren).

Before I yield to Ms. Lofgren, I would just like to comment a couple of things. Without disrespect to our Founding Fathers--I revere them all alike-- but Mr. Franks was talking about President Madison and the noble experiment and asked the…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would just like to respond a little bit to what was said, and it was said in a previous discussion by my friend from South Carolina about why Congress is in such disrepute. He was thinking, if…