Mr. President, within the next hour or so, we will learn whether the minority will come to their senses or whether they will engage in the very first partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee. All indications are that they are…

After a brief time in the majority, Senate Democrats were back in the minority in 2003--so approximately 2 years after they had this strategy. It was at that time the Senate Democrats began an unprecedented and systemic filibuster of…

Today, our institutions of high learning have, too often, turned from being a marketplace of ideas to a dictatorship of ideas.

People of faith, whether evangelical, Catholic, Jewish, or other faith have a civil right under the First Amendment to share their faith and viewpoint on public campuses.

Those that deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, nor under a just God can they long retain it.

Reclaiming my time from the gentleman from Texas, I appreciate the approach that you brought to this Congress. It is not hard for me to get behind, and I support legislation that is brought by Mr. Babin. He has been looking at the safety…

For the record, I believe I am a cosponsor of both of those pieces of legislation.

Reclaiming my time, I would like to pose a question to the gentleman from Texas. The bill that you have proposed that mirrors the President's executive order to limit people coming in from those six countries, do you have the bill number…

Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and to once again continue this dialogue that we have with you, all of our Members and staff and the American…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for his statement here and for bringing up the topic of American exceptionalism and bringing us back through some of this history that we need to revisit from time to time. That statement…

Mr. President, I rise to thank my colleagues for their support of my legislation to overturn President Obama's eleventh hour rule that revokes States' rights to determine the best eligible subgrantees for title X family planning funding…

Mr. President, in 2006, I was successful in enacting much needed updates to the IRS whistleblower program. Up until that time, the program was entirely a voluntary award program. There was also no central office within the IRS for handling…

Do you agree that the Supreme Court stripped the three words out of the Fifth Amendment, 'for public use'?

And I would say in conclusion that there's an image in my mind of a bill-signing ceremony for H.R. 1689.

So I am way disturbed by an amendment to the Constitution that has been edited by the Supreme Court with a level of impunity.

I find the bill unnecessary and problematic and, therefore, I continue to have concerns and will oppose the bill.

I have lived through the 1980s farm crisis and the years hence, and I have a feel and a flow for what has happened within the Farm Credit System.

I see that as perhaps a direct reaction to Congress' concern about the expansion of the mission statement.