I hope we can fix that.

Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for the motion to recommit.

Mr. Speaker, this week, I join dozens of communities across the Nation that are celebrating the 10th annual Latino Conservation Week. Today, I want to take the time to honor a remarkable leader and Hispanic conservation pioneer of New…

Mr. Speaker, at the appropriate time I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee. If the House rules permitted, I would have offered the motion with an important amendment to this bill. My amendment would insert the text…

Yes, we have a broken immigration system, but whose fault is that? Last Congress, we passed several bipartisan immigration bills, including the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Did any of the…

I think that the only way we can even come up with positive solutions to those areas is going to visit and convene people in those communities to try to get this work done.

Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Vasquez of New Mexico moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3941 to the Committee on…

I appreciate that.

Mr. Speaker, I completely agree as well that we do have an issue that we must address in terms of improving our education system, investing in our students, investing in our schools, but does this bill do this? Absolutely not. Last night…

I believe we must say that all the time, but I think even more importantly is that we need to recognize and provide the services and the honor and respect that our veterans deserve.

I am deeply committed to making sure that we get these Compacts done.

Maintaining strong relationships with the Freely Associated States is essential to countering this influence and to maintaining peace and economic stability abroad and at home.

Obviously, the national security, not only of the United States, but of the globe, depends on our ability to address issues in the South Pacific.

These Compacts are essential for continued security and our ability to do our work from a national security perspective.

But rather, it is the case that the United States will lose credibility within the region and beyond.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in my hopeful support of the National Defense Authorization Act. As a Member from New Mexico, the birthplace of nuclear research and the nuclear bomb, and also as a member of the Armed Services Committee, I have…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in June, I went home to where Democrats announced $670 million of investments in broadband that will grow our middle class in New Mexico. Then, I came back to a Congress…

Our job is to listen to the experts because we don't know, we are not there, we are not Navajo, we are not Pueblo, we are not Zuni.