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Mr. President, I come to the floor today to introduce a bill to support teachers, paraprofessionals and especially students, students with challenging behaviors. Last week I released a report titled ``Dangerous Use of Seclusion and…
Reserving the right to object--and I will object--I wish to remind my colleagues of a couple important points. First, over the last several weeks some of my colleagues in the majority have expressed frustration because some of the nominees…
I think that the program is legal. That is my opinion.
I want to make it very clear that--and if I did not have those same concerns, I would not be upholding my oath to the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment.
I think the statutory question is difficult. It is not a simple question.
The metadata program is constitutional, but divided on whether it is authorized by statute.
I have the same concerns that Senator Blumenthal has just expressed.
If you have a problem and you are trying to fix this problem and you do not see that there is a solution coming.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Retirement
It seems that there are people here politically that are willing to accept a significantly high level of fraud without an urgency to fix it.
Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on February 13, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled From Poverty…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Elizabeth Lievens and David Pope, interns in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. President, I want to talk today about a subject that has immense implications for America's future. In fact, I often talk about it as being perhaps the darkest cloud hanging over the future economic well-being of our country that no…
Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. I have a number of things that I would like to bring to your attention that are on my mind and I think are on…
The deportations right now--the removals right now all together, and that in the definition of deportations used in this report, are lower than they have been since 1973.
We know that those numbers have gone--the deaths have all been in the thousands, and it is tragic down there.
Mr. Speaker, I am slightly mystified by that. But in any case, I will try to be aware of that comment. To take us back to ObamaCare, Mr. Speaker, as I said, I would be happy to pick it up at this point. So we have a President who was, of…