It's sent all the gates toward close.

I mean, I would anticipate isn't the law that if you are denied a claim that you would be removed from the country?

My state has the highest percentage per capita of deaths by overdose from opioids.

mental health parity laws are simply not being followed.

When parents send their children to school, they expect them to be safe. However, this is not always the case.

Last year at this time there were those who said the numbers at the southern border were merely a seasonal surge, but the numbers have only continued to get worse.

the more people that come in puts more money in the hands of the cartels which allows them to up their ability to have a more robust drug trade.

These are very sensitive issues to Americans who believe fundamentally in the right to freedom of speech.

Democrats and Republicans got to come together for the health of all Americans.

Frankly, I don't know why we would spend billions of dollars protecting the homeland without the capacity to protect our citizens from foreign actors and terrorist organizations.

Today we should also talk about the work the department is doing to protect the homeland from two other threats.

We are not happy about the geopolitical situation, we are happy we got more miners to work.

I am very proud that we are here with our WRDA legislation today.

Can it be changed? Is it like a BRAC where you come back with another final recommendation?

I think basically just accept--helping them with their application approval process. That will help tremendously.

There's a big uproar in our state and we've already sent you a letter.

I am very proud that I supported the nomination of Christopher Williamson to be the Assistant Secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

What's worse, mental health parity laws are not really being enforced.