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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to bring this rule forward on behalf of the Rules Committee. The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3009, the Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act. The Rules Committee met yesterday evening and heard…
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise and just, again, part of this is really--and even if you look at the Administration's view on this bill and others, it is almost an Alice in Wonderland effect…
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I appreciate the argument, and this is why we have this time. But I do want to just remind again, from my previous statement, bringing up a bill last Congress reminds me of back when…
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. This is an interesting argument, as I stated before, because it really defies, in many ways, logic. The best way to help prevent what has just happened is to enforce the law. It is not to…
Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by looking at headlines. All you have got to do is just read the headlines that are blaring at us, coming at us in print, over our Internet, and others. They say things like: ``Five children among 94…
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I just want to hit a couple of points here. It was stated by my friend from Colorado about the issue of San Francisco and pursuing individuals, such as this one who…
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on House Resolution 370, currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…
I think what you have stated shows what we are dealing with here. What we are finding is the intolerance, something that is just so atypical of what we find here in America. I think the reason we are here today and actually talking about…
I thank you again, Congressman Franks, for your friendship. Thank you for your outspokenness on this issue for many years, and I think we continue to bring this forward as we go forward. Mr. Speaker, one of the things I want to overlook…
Mr. Speaker, I do appreciate those words, and I think it is not just in faraway places. We are also dealing with this kind of issue in this hemisphere as well. Just a little closer to home, southern Mexico even has experienced growing…
Thank you for being here, Congressman Vargas. I think there are many things that we can stand for. Nothing, I think, more basic to our liberties not only here in our country, but around the world, is just standing for, as Congressman…
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the topic of my Special Order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…
So it is safe to say the credit union members themselves bear the total cost of the agency's operations and expenses?
I think one of those is called freedom and consumer choice, which I think is one of the reasons why we have far exceeded a lot of other countries like Brazil.
As economic conditions change, Congress must evaluate the laws it creates and adjust mandates to reality.
To err is human, to forgive is divine, but the definition of insanity is once you err, you keep erring over and over and over again.
The federal government has no business mandating the sales of fuels that many Americans don't want to buy.