Mr. President, I rise to say that it is stunning to see the Republican Party running away from a bill they supported and a deal they cut. The deficit reduction deal was led by Senator Conrad. The Budget Control Act is the law of the land…

I thank Chairman McKeon and Ranking Member Smith for their leadership, and Chairman Wilson for making our subcommittee work a bipartisan effort. I also want to thank the staff for producing this important piece of legislation. I am pleased…

The other issue I want to raise--and several of my colleagues have raised this already--is the fact that this bill is $8 billion over the Budget Control Act. While we made a number of decisions to restore cuts from the President's budget…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to submit my remarks in opposition to a Republican bill that weakens protections for violence against women and in support of the bipartisan Senate bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to…

Madam Speaker, I am disappointed by the direction the House Majority has taken with this version of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). VAWA is a landmark piece of legislation that has dramatically reduced…

I rise today to oppose H.R. 4970. Under current law, a woman who is married to a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident and is a victim of spousal abuse can file a self- petition for legal permanent residency in order to leave that…

What measures and secondary sanctions can we adopt here in Congress to convince our European and Asian friends to withhold these non-lethal exports, particularly spare parts?

Today, I rise in opposition to H.R. 4970, the partisan reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Since 1994, the Violence Against Women Act has been a critical tool for protecting women and children who are victims of domestic…

Under American law the only legitimate trade is food and medicine.

What if we were to go further and say no company in the world could get a Federal or state contract if they sold anything to Iran other than food or medicine?

We should be putting these companies to a fundamental choice between doing business in Iran and doing business in the United States.

You would think that having gone from the largest trade surplus in the history of mammalian life to going to largest trade deficit, the elites of this country would understand that we are getting something wrong.

It would be extremely difficult for the immigration minister of any democracy to admit any person from this camp while the organization is designated by the great United States as a foreign terrorist organization.

The last convoys need to leave Camp Ashraf for Camp Hurriya. Camp Ashraf should be closed.

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Edwards, for your leadership before you even became a Member of Congress, but especially tonight to lead this discussion. I can't believe what we're about to do tomorrow in a vote to reauthorize. I was…

The State Department is playing into the politics of the Iranian mullahs and the Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki.

Let me ask you, does your hesitation to answer the question in a direct fashion have anything to do with the fact that if we were now to go on record as the official government position is that Camp Ashraf was disarmed, that those people…

I think that ignoring the slaughter of innocent people is not going to make things better when you are dealing with regimes like Iraq and Iran.