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Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the distinguished career of a longtime Texas lawman, constituent, and good friend, Texas Ranger Robert ``Brandon'' Bess. On February 29, 2024, he hung up his signature Stetson cowboy hat, and he…
Mr. Speaker, we have myths and then we have facts. Let's go over some myths for a second, particularly when you talk about the border. Myth one I heard was, the GOP doesn't have any solutions and doesn't want to solve this border crisis…
I guess now, in conclusion on this point, back to the border, an absolute tragedy that is unfolding for Americans reeling, like Laken Riley's parents, like Lizbeth's mom--by the way, you left out the fact, I understand, that she was…
To be clear, we are racking up an additional trillion dollars of debt every 100 days.
Does the gentleman agree that we will be fully funding Joe Biden's student loan bailout schemes that were found to be unlawful by the United States Supreme Court? He literally stood at the microphone and said: I don't care, I am doing it…
Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry) to engage in a colloquy so the American people can understand what we are dealing with. Next week, we are going to take up the second half of an omnibus appropriations…
We are spending now, this year, more on interest than our national defense. We will be cracking a trillion dollars of interest in 2026. We are now going to pass a package that spends $1.66 trillion, which the CBO acknowledges will continue…
Madam Speaker, I am glad to be here in an empty Chamber having the rigorous debate that we are so accustomed to here in the people's House, but that is, again, where we find ourselves with the level of debate at the moment. We are left…
Will we continue to fund through the State and Foreign Operations bill the President's radical anti-life agenda? Will we pass, instead, any of the pro-life protections, like the Mexico City policy, or no? What will we be funding…
Yet will not the very same people who will stand up and say we must fund this do so on the backs of the men and women in uniform saying that we must do this for defense, we must do this to make our defense stronger? Will they not be voting…
Should we be funding, for example, under COVID, the continued funding of the Wuhan lab or anything with respect to EcoHealth Alliance without any accountability for any of the people who sent our entire economy into a tailspin, racking up…
How about the HHS funding that we are going to be taking up next week, including the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which lost track, as the gentleman knows, of 85,000 migrant children, according to that bastion of rightwing conspiracy…
The America I know enforces the rule of law. The America I know establishes a rule of law that attracts people from the world to come to our country. That is why people come to the United States of America, because the rule of law affords…
Madam Speaker, I will close with this. In a couple of years, this country is going to be celebrating its 250th birthday on July 2, 2026. The question we have to ask ourselves is whether or not we are going to have a country that we pass…
Madam Speaker, with a great deal of consternation I rise in opposition to the opposition. H. Res. 1065, here we go again. Rather than solutions, the Republicans are denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policy. What do they…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I know he is probably as surprised as I am to be accused of taking orders from the former President and following whatever the former President says. If the…
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule to allow consideration of H. Res. 1065, denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies. Every day we see a new horror story in the news, a new headline about some violent crime…
Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to pay tribute to and welcome to Washington, D.C., a group of dedicated nursing and respiratory therapy students and professionals from West Coast University and American Career College. West Coast…