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Cedric Richmond
@cedricrichmond· Democratic · LA· Jun 24, 2019

I just wanted to highlight that we have different challenges in this country in this time and day.

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Cedric Richmond
@cedricrichmond· Democratic · LA· Jun 24, 2019

This is a topic that I believe deserves far more attention than it gets.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jun 24, 2019

House Republicans will also continue our steadfast support for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and will fight any attempts to diminish or weaken the law, which has served our country well for over 25 years.

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

I know the gentleman and I have been having the conversation for well over a month now about this crisis at the border. I am glad to hear that there is the possibility, maybe the likelihood, that there will be legislation coming to the…

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), our distinguished majority leader.

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

The gentleman and I need to and, hopefully, will work closely together--not isolated, but together--over the weekend to come up with a bill to solve this problem, recognizing that the Senate is going to, hopefully, move their own bill…

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

The political differences between the parties are not mutually exclusive to Republicans. Clearly, we have had ours within the Budget Committee. Now that you are in the majority, the Democrats on the Budget Committee could not come to an…

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

I am equally hopeful we can get that resolved, and I appreciate the gentleman's work on that. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

I appreciate that, and obviously, when you see that somebody would send their child--let's use Guatemala as an example because they are one of the countries where a lot of these young children are coming from. They went through Mexico…

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

I thank the gentleman for that commitment because I know that our teams will be talking. The leadership teams will be talking and working, hopefully, completely together in a way where, when we look at the Senate bill, there are components…

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

I do appreciate this is part of the process. And, again, I say the reason that it is good that we are having these talks now is because, as we have our differences--the gentleman within his own party, the gentleman with us, us with the…

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Jun 21, 2019

I just can't urge enough that as these conversations are happening and as this work is going on over the weekend that it is work not just among Democrat appropriators and Democrat leadership but that the majority is working with…

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jun 20, 2019

I would like to turn to the second principle framing today's hearing, that no one can be a judge of their own case.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jun 20, 2019

I think the message it has sent thus far, it is unfortunate.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jun 20, 2019

That is why I was proud to introduce H.R. 1075, the Supreme Court Ethics Act, which would require a code of ethics for the Supreme Court.

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 20, 2019

Let's break this apart a little bit. So my friend from South Carolina has proposed this amendment because he wants to protect the environment. Well, let's look at what happens when you do this. My friend sat in the House Committee on…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 20, 2019

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 285, strike line 6 and all that follows through line 25. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 20, 2019

This amendment is pretty simple. Section 117 in division C of the base text of the bill prevents the Department of the Interior from carrying out a NEPA review, a National Environmental Policy Act review, for the planning of offshore…

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