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I asked the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to at least defer any final decisions on the application for this merger until after this committee has had the opportunity to conduct a full review of the matter.

We have spent way too much time on the citizenship question. It is time that we get serious about implementing this.

Businesses have not asked for a lot of the anti-environmental measures that this Administration has taken.

The special interest narrative does not quite do it.

In our politics, we often use the term 'special interests,' and it is often used in a negative way.

I compliment my colleague on his sense of humor, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Our colleagues say all the time that we need to help the people at the bottom of the ladder. Those are exactly the people who are being helped by the Republican policies that were enacted in the first 2 years of this administration. We are…

Speaker Pelosi promised that a $15 minimum wage hike would be passed by the House in the first 100 hours of this Congress, so it is not surprising that 7 months later the Rules Committee accepted a manager's amendment to add a modest…

As our colleagues have noted, States and localities may enact higher minimum wages than the Federal minimum wage, and there are examples of that. But let's leave freedom in the hands of the people, in the hands of the States. That is what…

I do agree with one thing one of our colleagues across the aisle said a few minutes ago. We do need to let the American people know what this House is about to do; kill millions of jobs. The CBO's estimate was that 1.3 million jobs would…

So we don't have to change our asylum laws, we don't have to change anything about sanctuary cities, we can make kids safe.

If we were to appropriate money and allow you to keep families together when they come across... would that help solve the problem?

Well, I've looked at some of those documents because it's very--it really bothers me, because I saw the cost of purchasing a child...

So would you say that there is a coordinated effort among some south of our border to actually exploit children to circumvent U.S. laws?

Today has been interesting because I've seen some of my colleagues on the other side of this particular room actually come together.

If Democrats are serious, if they're serious about solving the border crisis, they must address, as I said before, the Flores settlement agreement, asylum loopholes, and the other laws and court decisions that incentivize aliens to make…

Abolish ICE. Abolish DHS, the entire Department. Walls are immoral, the Speaker of the House said, even though there's a wall in her state.

The comments from Democrats in Congress I think only serve to demean the public service of our brave Border Patrol employees and frankly--and this is important--to spark unnecessary outrage.