I want to ask for a moment that my colleagues imagine a situation. Imagine a few years down the road that a Republican President announces he has instructed the Justice Department to no longer enforce the Clean Air Act, that he has told…

I commend the president for acting because the intelligence showed an urgency to get in or they were going to kill this American hostage anyway.

I thank the chairman for yielding. There is no greater responsibility of the Federal Government than to provide for our national defense. This bill does that. I am particularly pleased this bill appropriately provides for our Nation's…

On rollcall No. 541, I was off the floor in a meeting and missed this second vote in the series. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

First let me thank Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Conyers--former Chairman Conyers--for those kind remarks. I have been fortunate to associate with both of you gentlemen over the past years and appreciate the confidence you have…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia. They actually called for us to have this procedure. And that part of Dodd-Frank--I have sometimes said ``the good, the bad, and the ugly''-- that was a good part. We needed to structure bankruptcy where…

Again, I thank the chairmen, the ranking members, and their staff for putting this together. The resolution process for financial institutions is one of the pieces of unfinished business from the 2008 financial crisis, and we will finish…

Does that make what the President did constitutional if it is unconstitutional?

I think maybe listening to everyone on the panel, I think, and most of the Members on the dais, we all agree that our country, its citizens, and even our immigrants need comprehensive immigration reform.

I think you acknowledged from an earlier question, this is an area that is going to be wrought with fraud.

I disagree with you. The statue is very clear at present that these illegals who are in this country are to be removed once they are located.

participating in Medicare and Social Security, both of which are struggling financially through solvency, to have this added burden I think is irresponsible.

Aren't these exigent circumstances?

It is only a matter of the when, not the if, that we are going to see something traumatic.

We're seeing multiple nation-states invest in those kinds of capabilities.

That's a troubling development for us.

It enables you to shut down very segmented, very tailored parts of our infrastructure that forestall the ability to provide that service to us as citizens.

I believe that the indecisiveness at the White House has led to a lot of the problems and the challenges that we are facing today.