Matt Salmon

the President very boldly said on national TV that as Commander in Chief, he leaves no soldier behind. That is his policy.

Right. And, Mr. Chairman, I can't understand how any conservative in good conscience would not want to stop that hemorrhage and make sure that we are not spending those billions of dollars that should be going to pay down our Federal debt.

That is what I understand. I also understand that conservative estimates indicate it is going to cost $2.6 billion a year to care for just half of the nearly 60,000 that are already here. We are talking about billions and billions of…

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

In fact, I visited the facility in Nogales just a couple of weeks ago where 1,250 children are sitting in cages.

It provides this Congress with a report that will allow this committee and our partner committees to implement a legislative strategy to attack this vicious narcotrafficking criminal process.

the current policy is not compassionate. It is not, because for every child that ends up in one of these facilities ... a child didn't make it.

This bill will mandate a commission to determine what has worked, what hasn't, and what needs to be done going forward.

I will just say in summation, I think the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise) said it very well, and that is: How in the world are we going to get to the serious cuts to try to get our budget balanced if we can't even cut a million…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 100, after line 17, insert the following new section: Sec. 541. None of the funds made available to the National…

The United States will always stand with those that seek freedom.

Dialogue doesn't get it done.

I would like to congratulate the gentlewoman from the Ninth Congressional District of Arizona, which is right adjacent to mine. She is my neighbor, and I am proud to cosponsor this with her to show a strong unity of bipartisanship for our…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, it is interesting, as we throw all these numbers around, I guess they mean a lot on the floor debate, but to the real people that are suffering, they don't really mean anything. There is an old adage…

In fact, are you aware that employees of unions are not afforded whistleblower protections and have, in fact, been fired without cause for simply exposing corruption?

I noticed that the President's budget calls for an increase in funding for whistleblower protection programs--an increase of 12.8 million specific to OSHA.

It is the sense of Congress that the United States should work to suspend all activities and meetings of the NATO-Russia Council until Russia ends its aggression against Ukraine, including by removing forces from, and reversing its illegal…

I continue to believe that we have woefully neglected this hemisphere and I share with the gentlewoman frustration with some of these multilateral organizations.

I think that a lot of these multilateral organizations are inherently corrupt in fact, not only do we not get value, it is actually counterproductive and it is very, very frustrating to me.

I get really, really frustrated with the toothlessness of the OAS... It looks just like we are throwing money down a rathole.

If we keep falling asleep at the switch as we have been for the last several years, not just the United States but the world is going to pay a hell of a price.

There is an old axiom that you either act or you are acted upon, and I think that right now... we have neglected the hemisphere.

the administration needs to come up with a coherent strategy for the region, one that considers our national security and commercial interests.

our strategic adversaries such as Russia, Iran and China have taken note of our absence in the region.

Venezuelan President Maduro has been violently crushing legitimate democratic protests.