Given the complex needs that are satisfied by the plant and all the different interests involved, I'm just wondering how you're going to balance all of this.

I thank the Senator for yielding, and I want to commend the Senator for this 12-hour long quest. I think it is now. It is an important topic. I recently traveled to Afghanistan and received a briefing there about the drone program and how…

the best way to get the border secured is to have a legal framework for people to come and to go.

I do want to get immigration through. I do not want any of the elements that we need to finish to hold up any of the other elements.

If we can work with you on that, it would be incredibly helpful.

I just want you to know, Mark, and I want Gabby to know how much we miss her here.

Is this an issue with Maryland or any other state? And I am not trying to pick on Maryland at all.

Well, I think we know now that the talking points--we do not exactly know where they were changed or how they were changed, but they were changed or altered.

Mr. Speaker, I've been putting off these remarks for a few weeks now. The truth is I've been reluctant to deliver my final speech on the House floor. This has been my home away from home for the past dozen years, and it's tough to say…

I appreciate this bill coming up. This has been long, long overdue. Many of us have been working on this issue for years. Several years ago, when I first got to Congress, I met with some CEOs of major tech corporations who told me that…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 6025, a bill to require the Department of Homeland Security to resume reporting operational control as a measure of border security. I thank the gentlelady from Michigan and her staff for working with…