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I actually believe that, in everybody, there is the innate desire to do good and that Democrats and Republicans love this country. This country is a gift to me. I came here from another country, as you know, and got the ability to live in…

--and there is no mechanism with which this body can change that, but what we can change--what we can change--is what happens from here forward. We can say that anybody who harms a police officer is going to do 20 years in prison. Now…

It is now indisputable that the last 4 years saw more injuries and more deaths of law enforcement officers than at any time in American history. Let me just read to you some of the data. From 2021 to 2023, more officers were feloniously…

You know, people are asking, 'Is he a conservative or is he a liberal? Will he attack President Trump and JD Vance on certain things?' … And I guess my response to this is, it’s very hard to fit a 2,000-year-old institution into the…

I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!

Let me finish real quick. The point is very simple. I get it. I get it. Politics has become a sport. It is about one team winning and one team losing, but that is why I ran for office, and I hope you can remember back when you first ran…

let's be clear: Republicans honor local law enforcement, Democrats defund them. Five years ago this summer, they spent the whole summer doing that. That is all you would hear from Democrats, got to defund the local police. We have been…

Mr. Speaker, I have not said I was for defunding the ATF or the FBI. What I have said, what the American people have said clearly is they don't want these agencies weaponized against the very people they are supposed to serve. We all know…

I rise to place remarks on the Record this evening focusing on liberty versus dictatorship. China's dictator Xi was recently at the historic military parade that fellow dictator Vladimir Putin celebrated in Moscow. The purpose of the…

Mr. Speaker, this week, we celebrate National Police Week. In so doing, we honor those officers who have been killed in the line of duty, as well as those who bravely serve their communities every single day. More than 60 years ago…

Many across our Nation are outraged at the $400 million luxury airplane, the palace in the sky, that President Trump just accepted from the Nation of Qatar. That is against the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. He took the bribe in…

I will go back to discussing some of the actions the administration has taken that have undermined America's position globally. First of all, the Trump administration has sided with Russia over Ukraine, most especially by pausing military…

Mr. Speaker, you can try to rewrite history, but it just doesn't work. Let me just read off the Democratic-run cities that did defund the police. Here is the game the Democrats want. All during the summer of 2020, they were saying: Defund…

I'm sure he's going to say a lot of things that I love. I'm sure he'll say some things that I disagree with.

We’re not going to get involved in the middle of a war that’s fundamentally none of our business.

There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world.