But they don't determine which specific phone calls are relevant pursuant to the statute. You do that.

I have been the author of the PATRIOT Act and the PATRIOT Act reauthorization of 2006.

You are having it both ways.

Mr. Speaker, tonight, we want to have a conversation about immigration and immigration reform because we recognize that in 1986, when Congress and the President came together for immigration reform, it didn't work. It didn't work for…

It is that very point. It is that lack of trust with the American people and Washington, D.C. That's why we want to go through a step-by-step approach, analyzing immigration and immigration reform. The gentleman from North Carolina said…

I appreciate the gentleman from North Carolina's comments. And you look around at immigrants that come to America, why do they come? They've come for the American Dream. They've come for a better life for themselves. They've come for a…

And I hear similar things, and that's why people say, Take it slow. Talk about it. Talk to us. Let's do what's right. Let's do what works for the very people that you talked about. Some call them the Dreamers, people who are here at 17…

things have gone off in a different direction from that day.

Mr. Speaker, I think it's important for all of us to stand strong, stand tall and lead, listen, communicate on this very important issue. And I know that's what we want to do here tonight is throw out ideas, but also prepare ourselves to…

I was proud to have served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when the Voting Rights Act was last reauthorized.

I deeply appreciate the comments that Mr. Lewis has made because he is truly a civil rights icon.

I am not a civil rights icon. I try to be a mechanic to put together legislation that will work.

I support President Obama's ConnectED Initiative to connect 99 percent of students to broadband and high-speed wireless.

It's amazing how many decades have gone by without that reform.

I, personally, think education is, by and large, a local issue.

Why shouldn't this be, really, a local control and local funding?

We've heard through testimony and discussion of these temporary outages that they were the result of a lack of information, a lack of transparency, and I think we should be able to do better.

I want to go into a little bit more depth on a topic that a number of you referenced in your formal testimony of refinery outages.