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Requiring asylum seekers to seek legal status to immigrate at a Consulate of the US State Department and to have robust enforcement of our laws at the border would restore safety and an environment only conducive to legal commerce in our…

we have to do something different because we are changing lives every day in this country because we are doing nothing.

this is not a partisan issue at home. At the border it is not. In Washington, where we fight every day, it is, but right here it is not.

Madam Speaker, this is the same Secretary who tells his ICE agents you cannot remove 1 million, 1.2 million people who have actually had due process through the courts and have active removal orders. He is the same Secretary who said that…

Madam Speaker, James Iredell, one of the Founders from North Carolina, talking about this impeachment clause said: ``The power of impeachment is given by this Constitution, to bring great offenders to punishment. It is calculated to bring…

Mr. Speaker, let me start with this: The House is pursuing impeachment because there is no option left. Secretary Mayorkas has abandoned his job, and he has abandoned the American people. As the charges describe, the Secretary has…

Madam Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 34. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Bice). The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared…

Madam Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 23 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at 9 a.m…

Madam Speaker, last week, I promised we were getting close to actually finishing our math in regard to what was the true story of what was happening with Social Security. A couple of our Ph.D. economists have spent months, and we have put…

Maybe we need to really think about this co-op model, these new manufacturing methods, and the ability to do it better, faster, cheaper.

We, right now, as a government, we give $16 billion a year to Big Pharma to buy down the price of insulin.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and remember U.S. Air Force General Earl T. O'Loughlin, who passed away November 10, 2023, at the age of 93 years old. General O'Loughlin was a distinguished four-star general, who commenced his military…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Westerman, my good friend, for yielding me the time to speak in support of my bill, H.R. 2882, the Udall Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2023. The Udall Foundation is a nonpartisan agency established by Congress…

Once it is broken, it is almost impossible to take care of.

Every single penny that we talk about that the government is going to spend comes out of some hardworking American taxpayer's pocket, okay?

It really does come down to the economy, and I don't say it is about being stupid, it is about being realistic about it.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Cutter Papritz, a remarkable recipient of the Congressional Youth Award in our district. The Congressional Youth Award, established by Congress in 1979, stands as the highest honor conferred upon…