If we want them to be independent, if we want them to carry their weight in society, we have to pay a fair wage.

As the Foreign Affairs Committee moves six bills forward with bipartisan support today, I want to speak specifically about H.R. 5141.

I want to thank Representative Ros-Lehtinen and Representative Deutch for their leadership in introducing this bill.

It remains imperative that the U.S. does its part to help our ally Israel protect itself from all threats.

I encourage my colleagues on this committee to support this critical legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from California. I rise in opposition to S.J. Res. 57. This is a resolution to disapprove of the CFPB auto lending rules. I oppose this, Mr. Speaker, because I believe U.S. markets should be free from…

I am a strong supporter of the U.S.-Israeli alliance.

We feel like we can do better as a state in managing our law enforcement affairs than the Federal Government.

Given that profile of activity why are armed BLM law enforcement agents wearing flak jackets, no less, executing search warrants in the private homes of artifact collectors?

We are not talking about a slight difference there. That is a very significant difference.

Yet nothing in federal law precludes them from using local law enforcement and in some ways it encourages it.

And to the extent it can achieve that, it saves the taxpayer money.

I appreciated what you said earlier about the overcriminalization issue and noting that although that is not the precise focus of this hearing, it is closely related to the overcriminalization problem.

They said that essentially that it is not only unknown, but it is unknowable.

I think you would agree, has suffered significant reputational damage due to its officers, its agents, engaging in misconduct and their overzealous use of some really heavy-handed tactics.

I think that is one of the reasons why we have to be concerned here, one of the reasons why FLPMA favors, encourages and arguably creates a strong presumption in favor of bringing in local law enforcement to assist with the day-to-day…

So it should not be the presumption that when somebody has done something wrong that the only solution, every time, is always just do criminal action.

It is called the Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act.