No one on this committee wants to see families separated, but to avoid this, we need to take an honest look at the incentives that drive illegal immigration.

The Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 131, providing for the consideration of the conference report to accompany H.J. Res. 31, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019. The rule provides for consideration of the…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 131 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 131 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I thank the ranking member of the committee for his leadership. I rise to speak against this resolution, which would direct the removal of U.S. forces from Yemen. This resolution is dangerous, and the majority should immediately take this…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 252, noes 177, not voting 8, as follows: [Roll No. 81] AYES--252 Abraham Aderholt Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Axne…

I appreciate the gentleman's remarks, but it doesn't. This resolution is not clear, and that is the problem. This amendment clarifies something that is unclear. My friends on the other side of the aisle feel that we must cut our…

I am an original cosponsor of this resolution, and it was my understanding at the time that I cosponsored this that we would have the opportunity to make this resolution better. This amendment that I have offered does just that. I actually…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, after line 13, insert the following new section (and redesignate the subsequent sections…

we are here in support of some sort of safe harbor for banks engaged in this industry, which we strongly support.

And is this a perfect solution? No...

the Cole Memo was suspended, and it is and has been creating a lot of confusion.

For years, we have been trying to address this in one form or another here in the Congress...

today we are making some great progress on a bill that is very important to so many Members in this Chamber and particularly important to the American people--a public lands package that, in some cases, has taken years for these bills to…

But the American voters have spoken and continue to speak, and the fact is you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

we supported the SAFE Banking Act, which was originally introduced in 2017 by Congressman Perlmutter.

the very fact that we have a bipartisan panel here who all agree with the basic foundation of what we need to address is actually a big step forward for Congress.

If we can keep climate change down below 2 degrees, that will help with the initial causes of the devastating forest fires.

We should probably fix that.