Let me run through a few points here to see if I can clarify a number of the remarks. The base text of the bill actually prevents the Department of the Interior from carrying out the steps that are required. Think about the concept of what…

I claim time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana is recognized for 5 minutes.

It would've been a dereliction of duty for them not to investigate.

We've got 70,000 people that died of opioid addictions last year.

As we go forward today, though, the special counsel finished his investigation, found no Americans, no one on the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russians.

Rather than engage in a traditional accommodation process, the chairman held the Attorney General in contempt in record time on flimsy grounds.

We're wasting our time; we're chasing our tails. It is taxpayer money that's paying for all this.

Despite the conclusions the Mueller report came to, Democrats have spent the past few months trying to desperately revive their Russian conspiracy theory.

Democrats are not only disappointed, they are angry. Angry that the President was not a Russian asset, it seems.

Plan B was Democrats manufacture a fight with the Attorney General.

It's really a faux impeachment, because, whereas the hardcore, hate Trump, Democrat base despises this President, wants him impeached, the Democrats still refuse to move forward on impeachment because they know that will blow up in their…

Imagine disliking a President so much that you wished he were a foreign agent. That is where the other party is today.

Even their own witnesses admitted the subpoena was asking for illegal things.

The Democrats subpoenaed McGahn knowing every President since at least the 1970s... claimed immunity over congressional testimony from close Presidential advisers.

This is the committee that could pass something that I've introduced, and that's a balanced budget amendment requiring to us do what every State has to do, balance its budget.

I would argue with you that it is clear in the report, in the Mueller report, that the Steele dossier came to their attention after the information came in from the foreign government.

Last month alone, 145,000 illegal immigrants flowed into this country--145,000 in 1 month.

We've got a $22 trillion debt hanging over all our heads.