I thank my friend for her remarks. The gentlewoman is a great addition to our Conference. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bilirakis), who is my good friend.

I have the honor and privilege to stand in the House today to highlight the courage of a young man, Enes Kanter Freedom, who has dealt with the tyranny of a country that he came from. Since becoming an American citizen, he decided to stand…

Obviously, in the years that have passed, a lot of steps have been taken by the public sector, the private sector, as well as the Federal Government to make our nation more secure.

Those who have second- or third-trimester abortions, late-term abortions, do they have--what do their higher suicides look like?

The coordination between Federal, State, and local agencies has become a high priority after September 11, 2001 (9/11), as well as after the bombing in Boston.

I appreciate the witnesses that are here, able to describe some of the lessons we have learned from that terrible tragedy a decade ago and to help us understand what things we can do to improve our readiness for potential acts of…

When Title IX became law in 1972, it was a watershed moment for every woman in America. Title IX was a game changer for women and girls in sports to showcase their talents on the field without discrimination or prejudice. I watched with…

There simply isn't. I will have my staff reach out to yours, but will you commit to emphasizing with your agency that expediency is key with this project, especially as it relates to community water?

Today, there is far more looting, far more grave robbing, vandalism in this area.

How in the world does the Federal Government propose to do what it said it was going to do when it made this a monument designation and took the stewardship away from the local people?

But it is not staff, it is budget.

We must do this to protect and preserve this area. We don't trust the state, we don't trust the county, we don't trust the elected officials to do this as they have done it for many, many decades.

I think we as lawmakers and policy makers need to understand it is not as easy as waving a wand and protecting all of this area because we have designated it.

The idea that we are going to somehow solve the root causes in all of Latin America of corruption, of the kind of military threats going on, that is just not going to happen.

We cannot solve poverty here. We cannot end crime here, in our own country. The idea that we are going to do it in dozens of countries across Latin America and reduce the desire of people to come to America is just not realistic.

We are going to have to secure our border.

My district is not only rural, half of it is classified as frontier. Now layer over top of that that the vast majority of it, 90 percent of the land, is owned by the Federal Government.

we have seen for several decades a growing reluctance from land managers to permit authorized uses of federal land, often due to just minimal negative public feedback.