Earlier this month, California announced that it had seized 1.1 million fentanyl pills as well as 523 pounds of methamphetamine in just 7 days. The active components of fentanyl are shipped from China with the consent of the Chinese…

We want to do good in public service, not do bad and do ill.

We have both responsibility to keep this Nation safe and the responsibility to ensure that laws have common sense.

Last week, the EPA delivered a devastating blow to American energy generators with the decision to impose severe regulations that are designed to close the power plants that Pennsylvania communities rely on each and every day. This…

One in three families are going into debt over the cost of a simple phone call in 2024.

that case is a good example of over criminalization leading to selective or what appears to be entirely politically motivated prosecution

I support the freedom of speech, the freedom of the right to associate.

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a letter from the Congressional Budget Office on how this bill would clarify and strengthen the agency's general authority for…

Good morning, Mr. Chair. It is a pleasure to be with you this morning. This is more than a unique moment in history.

This is a commonsense bipartisan bill that gives CBO the tools it needs to do its job to serve this institution better. This is really about strengthening the institution of Congress, in addition to ensuring CBO is better able to deliver a…

I think that is what we all want to see and hear.

Which leads to why am I being slapped more than once on the incarceration for a very low-level crime, if you will.

the advent of over criminalization empowers rogue or politically motivated prosecutors to identify a person or target to prosecute

I thank our chairman, Mr. Roger Williams from the great State of Texas, for yielding and for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I rise today during National Small Business Week in support of H.R. 5333, the Investing in All of America Act of…

I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 4824, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Unfortunately, my district is not unique in experiencing the dual challenges of a struggling downtown market alongside an affordable housing crisis.

The time of the vote changed without adequate notice and I could not arrive in time. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 143, AYE on Roll Call No. 144, YEA on Roll Call No. 145, NAY on Roll Call No. 146, AYE on Roll…

Several months ago, a bipartisan group of my colleagues and I introduced a bill, the Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act, and that is exactly what we will be voting on today. First, as far as defending our border from cartels…