Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for the information he has given us, and I certainly thank him for his comments at the close of his initial statement on the colloquy. We are all ecstatic, as I am sure the gentleman can understand, that…

As result, the MRA today has shrunk to 85 percent of what it was 8 years ago. Meanwhile, the population of the United States has grown by an estimated 19 million people. Less service for our people. That is why I wrote the Appropriations…

Mr. Speaker, first, let me say I heard the gentleman from Georgia's argument that this money wasn't needed. I heard that argument a month ago; Ebola money was not needed. Guess what? Ebola money was needed. I rise in opposition to this…

Mr. Chair, I thank the ranking member, Mrs. Lowey, for yielding. I rise twice today in sadness. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, albeit on leave, I have great respect for this committee, but I rise to express my concern with…

If the administration truly wanted to strengthen enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, it would push legislation to address the Shelby County decision and restore the Voting Rights Act to its full effectiveness.

There were not fine people on the sides of the Ku Klux Klan or the neo-Nazis.

Such bigotry should have no place in American life.

But don't you think the proper road to go for those who want to put a citizenship question and want to impose the citizenship requirement for voting, which has never been there, is to amend the Constitution?

As I understand it, your argument is that the Constitution forecloses the ability to ask about the presence of noncitizens in the country.

Its conduct is disgusting, immoral, and hypocritical.

Its intent is to frighten people in immigrant communities from participating in the census.

The conduct of the decennial census was never supposed to be a political function.

Adding an unvetted citizenship question to the census will not only undermine the Constitution's mandate.

Can I just submit something for the record, a Law Review article?

This assertion seems like a thinly veiled pretext to exclude immigrants and racial minorities from being counted, literally and figuratively.

the census must count, quote, "the whole number of persons," unquote.

Adding such a question raises the serious risk of depressing the response rates of immigrants and other minority communities, leading to an undercount of their numbers.

Mr. President, last night, the Senate passed two pieces of bipartisan legislation that will increase access to capital for small businesses and strengthen the Small Business Administration's oversight of its largest lending program. First…