Mr. Chair, I thank my friend from Georgia (Mr. Collins) for allowing me the time. I rise today in opposition to H.R. 8 and want to lay out a couple of reasons for my opposition. Before I do, I think it is important to acknowledge how…

Please elaborate on the agency's thinking on this rule, because through the USDA's February 1st SNAP Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents proposed rulemaking, you seem to be ignoring the will of Congress.

I support Chairwoman Waters' decision to create this new subcommittee, and I continue to support her work on the issues facing diversity and inclusion in the financial services sector.

Today, we are here to discuss solutions for protecting our country's front-line caregivers from violence in the workplace.

I also want to ask about your decision to appoint Naomi Earp as the Deputy Assistant Secretary.

I was proud to work with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to authorize at least three Centers of Excellence at 1890 land-grant universities in last year's farm bill.

I want to mention one other thing about that. One of the better things you all did regarding 1890s and the farm bill was to stop the rescission of the money that you are giving out there.

I am hopeful that the Chairman will continue to pursue this approach, as it is important for the long-term integrity of the institution.

Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Missouri is exactly right. It is the statutes that allow this President to do this. The statutes don't provide for national emergencies on climate change. They don't allow for national emergencies on gun…

What we're going to do is take back our country. 2012 is the time that we're going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is. We're going to do it.

It is racist to suggest that I asked her to come in here for that reason.

I think what we have heard is very important, Madam Chairwoman, about the kind of analysis that needs to be done...

there is a punitive intent that is suggested.

When we see people fleeing their home countries, women, children, families fleeing violence and corruption, we naturally look to the humanitarian conditions, the economic conditions in their home countries, what is driving the migration.

Now, the president has actually publicly threatened to cut all assistance to the Northern Triangle essentially as punishment for the ongoing outmigration that we need to figure out how to mitigate.

And I am optimistic that what we are doing will give us a better likelihood that we will achieve the outcomes that will be better for both the people of Israel and the Palestinian people as well.

When the Trump administration came in and set up their first budget, they proposed slashing assistance to each of those three countries.

It was the first time I had focused on the need for in-country support, in-country assistance in these Triangle countries.