I appreciate the comments of my colleague, the Senator from Illinois, but there is no doubt that we have a problem in the United States today. Our immigration system does need to be reformed, but it does need to be done in a bipartisan…

It's time to reopen our states, even the blue states. We must get people back to work and get kids back to school.

Anyone that commits fraud and steals taxpayer dollars from hardworking Americans should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

It's wrong, what they're doing. It's a dangerous game that the Democrats are playing with this election.

I'm hoping that some of this money can be used in accordance with a bill that I introduced, H.R. 1897, that would do COVID-19 testing for those migrants coming across our borders, which is not done now.

it has become all too easy for pundits and politicians to reduce the security of our borders to a bumper sticker or billboard slogan. As someone who appreciates the value of human life, as a survivor of sexual assault, and someone who…

Like many Americans, I cherish my right to bear arms. In a time when law enforcement response might be uncertain, the need for vulnerable populations to feel safe and be able to protect themselves is more important than ever.

during committee review of Ms. Young's nomination to be the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, important questions were raised about whether she would uphold and enforce the restrictions of the Hyde amendment if…

I ask unanimous consent that my Judiciary Committee detailee, Joseph Routh, be given privileges of the floor for the remainder of the 117th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered ____________________

A Civil War legislation called the False Claims Act has been on the books since that period of time. In 1986, I believe it was, I got some amendments to it that made it a much more valuable piece of legislation than it was before that…

The filibuster forces compromises, and this is what Republicans did when they were in the majority in both the House and the Senate and holding the White House.

I was going to ask for 1 minute yesterday, given that it was St. Patrick's Day and Pella High School Dutch's color is green, but they are the Pella Dutch, not the Pella Irish. Last Friday, the Pella High School Dutch of Marion County…

on March 6 of this year, the intelligence community issued its ``Intelligence Community Assessment on Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections.'' Based on that report, some in the liberal media have falsely claimed that my and…

it has been a year now since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. It put the world into an unprecedented global lockdown, and we are still in the dark about how the pandemic even began. Folks, this isn't entirely an…

I was at the border on Monday in El Paso, and yesterday I introduced my first piece of legislation, the REACT Act.

I thank my good friend, Congresswoman Fischbach, for yielding me time. I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so we can take up my bill, H.R. 1897, the REACT Act. My bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to…

PPP has provided essential assistance for our small businesses in Iowa and all across the country.

Your Department also recently announced it would be canceling an information-sharing agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services.