I understand these challenges firsthand, after my family searched for the best treatment options for my wife, Patty, after she was diagnosed with glioblastoma in December of 2022.

This is a national emergency. This is something we have got to address and save Americans, 200 every day.

Is that the highest percentage that we have ever had as a percentage of our population since we have been counting it going back well into the, you know, early part of the 19th century?

But look, I think we can all agree in this room and outside of this room, there is a crisis at the border.

I have a hard time with restraining my temper when I hear nonsense like this in the 21st century.

Is that not, in fact, a backdoor way to dump more people into the United States rather than having them visibly come across the border?

Their answers are always astonishing to me; anywhere between 65 and 90 percent of their time is spent checking boxes.

Since the 1990s, the defense industry has seen a 90-percent decrease in the prime contracting space, from 51 contractors to 5 contractors.

Due to illness, I was unable to vote during the first vote series. Had I been able to vote, I would have voted: YEA on roll call No. 179, H.R. 3354, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 220 North Hatcher…

Current conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine have decreased our domestic defense industrial stockpiles, and with the strongest military in the world, it is imperative that we prioritize rebuilding our defense industry and stockpiles to…

Parole has become a shadow immigration system. It is essentially supplanting the family and employment-based systems.

It is an epidemic, and until we get a handle on it, these crises are going to continue.

As usual, I appreciate my friend from Arizona, who is, if nothing else, dogged in his determination and consistent in making clear to the American people the problem that we face on our overall spending, including mandatory. Specifically…

If my Republican colleagues want to do something about border security, fine, let's do it.

It is important to recognize the increase in the number of contractors leads to more reliable supply chains, scaled efficiency, less backlogs, and this increases competition.

We are a nation of risk takers, people who are willing to take the risk to come here to provide a better life.

If there is such a positive benefit, then why isn't New York seeing that?

Immigration reform, border security, is the most politically toxic, policy complicated issue I have worked on.