It is long past the time for the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to conduct oversight hearings on the slow and ineffective resp...
What I cannot agree on is the need for a hearing on shark finning today instead of a hearing on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the U.S. ...
The President and leaders in Congress have committed to Americans in the Territories that they will receive the support they need.
I will remain hopeful yet vigilant in my work to see that Congress delivers on the promises to support the Virgin Islands and the Territorie...
I want to echo the sentiments of my colleague, Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, in that much of the issues that we are facing have much to do with ...
And will your budget reflect the magnitude of these hurricanes?
I believe regulating through no action relief letters is poor governance although necessary at times for expedient flexibility.
They are really making a difference in our communities.
I just wish Mexico would pay for it instead.
As you talked about success, HIDTA initiatives identified over 8,800 drug trafficking organizations.
I believe that a lot of that money, those billions of dollars that are being spent on that wall... could be better used to wall ourself from...
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, or HIDTA, was created to provide assistance to Federal, State, local, and Tribal law enfor...
the Virgin Islands and places like me are facing enormous murder rates, enormous disruption to our communities because of this drug traffick...
I think that for areas like your own and I know in the Virgin Islands that those fines mean that there is less money to actually do the work...
The practice we are discussing today is really very unremarkable: enforcement actions by government agencies.
It has been your testimony and studies that we have been looking at in the Office of Management and Budget has found that major Federal regu...
In 2013, former Attorney General Holder issued a memo to Federal prosecutors urging them to ensure that our most severe mandatory minimum pe...
By that, we are making the assumption that the lawsuits can actually change policy of the EPA.