Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

That seems to have been lost in all of this conversation.

I would like to take a few minutes this afternoon to talk about some of the events that happened here in the past 24 hours. Less than 24 hours ago, we confirmed my colleague--former colleague now--Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman talks about regular order. This particular regulation from the Bureau of Land Management was enacted very quickly and hurriedly without input from State and county…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 91 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 91 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

House Resolution 91 provides for consideration of three separate joint resolutions intended to address government overreach by using the Congressional Review Act process. The first measure deals with the Bureau of Land Management's…

I rise in support of the nomination of my colleague and friend Jeff Sessions to be the Attorney General of the United States. Why? We have had this debate. It has gone on a long time, and we have heard from a lot of proponents and…

I intend to introduce legislation entitled the Border Funding Act of 2017 that would put a 2 percent tax on those remittances.

I am really interested in specifically how you see that securing of that border coming together, with what technologies, what kind of wall.

I appreciate the chairwoman for yielding, and for her leadership on our committee. I rise today to offer my strong support for H.J. Res. 37. This legislation is about protecting our Nation's workers, small businesses, and taxpayers. As a…

I think this thing is completely and utterly ridiculous, that there's a political debate about a well-thought-out, well-planned -- and listen, if everything was perfect this would be a different world. It's not.

I think the seriousness of the breach at OPM requires that we do our jobs to make sure that our data systems are secure.

And some notion that that whole military command is somehow ceded itself to some politics between Obama and Trump is nuts. And we better get over this in a hurry.

The purpose of this hearing is to make sure that our data systems are secure.

Neither side in the last campaign did that in any meaningful way.

I just think that it would have been smarter to bring those people in and walk through the process including by the way the attorney general, the acting attorney general to say how would you implement it and how do we do this in a way that…

Again, I'm arguing that I agreed with President Obama in 2011, and I agree with the notion that you need a tougher security view.

I would argue probably not. And there were some things to do.