I disagree on the Senate bill, as does most of the Republican Members of Congress and quite a few Republican Members of the Senate.

I can tell you that in my subcommittee on Homeland Security, we have sat and heard the conversation from all the Departments that it is the policy of the government to only go after criminal aliens.

Has that not encouraged people to make this kind of decision for their children? This is atrocious.

All of which, if they were American citizens, would go before our Child Protective Services and probably be taken away from their parents rather than turned over to a criminal organization.

You have refused to prosecute immigration cases. Stated as a public policy that you would not go forward on anything but major criminal violations.

Nobody crosses the Texas border from Mexico without the assistance of the cartel.

And what I am driving at, of course, in the instance Mr. Fattah mentioned were the 3 million folks that were granted amnesty under President Reagan, that was a congressional decision, statute, following the statute that Congress has…

There are laws on the books today that would fix immigration reform, but they are not being enforced.

The term workforce violence has consequences at the DOD. And that's the real issue I have been concerned about since day one.

I think we ought to at least acknowledge that there's a clear definition under Federal law, and by the way, Texas has one under State law that says, I think clearly that the act was terrorism.

Once again, we have seen a tragedy at Fort Hood, the great place as we called it back in Texas.

Our prayers are with the fallen troops, those who were injured, and those who are still in recovery and the families of all those involved.

I'm asking, and have been asking my fellow Texans as well as all Americans to please keep Fort Hood families in their prayers.

The death of three soldiers this week... is a stark reminder of the threat our military members are dealing with.

I think if we prohibit investment advice for savers, we are going to have even fewer savers than we had before, right?

Creating an environment for sound retirement is not only good for participants, it is good for America.

I would continue to urge the Secretary of Labor to revisit the Department's approach to this issue.

If our goal is to increase the number of Americans saving for retirement, we should be expanding the options available to employers.