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I thank the gentlelady for her question. Clearly, this is, as the gentlelady points out, a very serious matter of great concern. And I want to say that we will join with the lady and with all of those who represent the region on both sides…
I thank the chairman for his generous remarks. More importantly, however, I thank him for his very hard, focused, untiring work on making sure that, for the first time since 2004, we pass an authorization bill for intelligence. I want to…
I thank the gentleman for yielding. The Senate Judiciary Committee raised concerns about the drafting of section 917, which enhanced criminal penalties for individuals who fail to follow Coast Guard orders to ``heave to'' and stop their…
Mr. President, I rise today to introduce the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky Act of 2010. As Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, I first learned about Sergei Magnitsky at a hearing I held on Russia in June 2009…
Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include any extraneous material in the Congressional Record. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request…
Madam Speaker, Americans across the Nation are increasingly interested in the contribution that clean, homegrown fuels can make to our environment, economic development, and energy security. Additionally, I hear from many of my…
Madam Speaker, again, I want to thank the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Teague) for this initiative and just respond to a couple of the points raised by Mr. Camp, the ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee. First, this piece of…
Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4168) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the definition of cellulosic biofuel to include algae-based biofuel for purposes of the cellulosic biofuel…
It seems like we need to have good information to make decisions.
Well, your brother had a right, though, to expect that the country that he lived in, which is the envy of the world for promoting liberty and justice and opportunity for all of its citizens, a model democracy, that that country would do…
But they also understand that this Nation needs--its first priority is to protect its citizens and that when someone is brutally attacked or put in harm's way solely because they have no roof over their heads at night, that is not America.
I can tell you that they want us at the national level to do everything we can to reduce the number of homeless, particularly those who are homeless because of a circumstance such as domestic violence or the fact that they have come back…
If you base it upon the information that has been presented by the advocacy community, then we do have a rising problem.
I found the hearing very helpful, and we will decide next how to proceed, and we thank you for your testimony.
I just interpret from your comments that you want to be opposed to this bill, which is your right to do it, but I do not see any rational distinction if you support collecting information on crimes.