No one should blame the men and women of DHS for problems Congress has allowed to fester.

I hope we can come together to enact a meaningful authorization bill that unifies the Department and provides its employees with the funding, authorities, training, and equipment they need.

The focus of this hearing is now on the troubling problem of vacancies in critical offices throughout DHS.

Today's hearing will give Members an opportunity to explore the impact of DHS's leadership void on the Department's ability to carry out its critical mission.

Madam Speaker, the USO is on Capitol Hill today for a service project where volunteers can assemble care packages for servicemembers who are currently deployed. More than 2,000 care packages will be assembled today as part of the Force…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today for constituents with whom I recently met whose family is one among millions of Uighurs, the ethnic Muslim community from Xinjiang in northwest China being persecuted by the Chinese Government. My constituents'…

The Trump administration has done some fantastic work over the last 2 years.

It is a privilege to testify before you today on a range of issues of concern to my district.

I believe school infrastructure investments should be included in any infrastructure package, including projects such as those in Representative Bobby Scott's Rebuild America's Schools Act.

Madam President, I come to the floor tonight to discuss the troubling state of judicial nominations before the Senate. This week, we are voting on, among others, two district court nominees-- Campbell Barker and Andrew Brasher--who have…

What was insufficient?

I wish I'd heard these comments on this panel about Eric Holder the numerous times he went up there and did exactly the same thing for Barack Obama over and over and over again, and it's a different standard. It's not a fair standard.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Judicial Nominations

You just really don't want to give us equal rights.

I find it baffling that this administration talks tough about cybersecurity but cuts funding to essential cybersecurity programs.

I would say a good percentage of those used the cyber system to proffer their hate or to take from it their hate.

this will implode the 35 states we already have because now more are tuned to the arguments there will be a mountain of opposition.

We know that as we worked on the last farm bill and we looked at the state of the national economy, and specifically in rural America, farm income decline was significant over the past 6 years.