Rubén Gallego

I also recommend just taking the Metro. It is much quicker, but that is just me. Number eight, $130 fountain pens: Scott Pruitt has spent over $1,500 taxpayer dollars on personalized $130 fountain pens. Now, I recommend the BIC pen. It…

Before we go into the top 10, I think one of the pretty scandalous other abuses of taxpayers is the fact that he had his personal detail asking and searching for used Trump mattresses. Now, this is not a joke, this is not from an episode…

In Trump's ``Cabinet of corruption,'' one individual stands head and shoulders above the rest. He is a man that Senator Udall crowned ``the Emperor of the Swamp.'' If we created a Mount Rushmore of American corruption, his face would be…

As you know, Members of this House disagree on a whole range of topics, but one rare point of bipartisan agreement concerns the ZTE Corporation. We have all heard complaints about the theft of trade secrets by ZTE and other major Chinese…

If I had the opportunity to get you $25 billion and you had to choose between a wall or to put more men at Customs and the border, men and women, professionals at our Customs and ports of entry, where would you choose your resources to be…

Definitely one of my proudest moments was working with Governor Brewer and other Republicans to pass Medicaid expansion, something that I think has been beneficial to this State.

I came down to the floor today to give a gentle reminder and a wake-up call to Chairman Gowdy and to Speaker Ryan. I know they have a lot going on. The Speaker is flying out to do a fundraiser today. But I want to make sure he actually…

I was a free lunch kid growing up. I was the young man that brought his ID card to the lunch lady and she looked on the back for the yellow sticker and I received free breakfasts and free lunches. I know what it is like to come from a home…

In closing, if you wonder why these Cabinet members feel that they can get away with this, if you wonder why some of these lifelong career politicians and executives think that this is a good idea, it is because they look at the top. They…

When the President ran for office, he ran on a saying: drain the swamp. Does this look like you are draining the swamp? Does the list of people and the list of corruption we have seen, does that look like you are draining the swamp? No, it…

We have our favorite cause, or celebrity nowadays, the EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, who, so far, has spent $800,000 for around-the-clock security, nearly twice the cost of security for Pruitt's two immediate predecessors; $105,000 in…

That is, actually, they were personal planes that he took that cost a total of $500,000, Congressman Lieu.

Let's talk about HUD Secretary Ben Carson: for a mahogany dining set for his office, $31,000.

Another example, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, nearly $1 million on seven military flights, instead of flying commercial like his predecessors, including a day trip to Ottawa with his fiancee, a $26,900 military flight to Kentucky in…

This weekend, millions of Americans will stop procrastinating and sit down and do their taxes. Nobody likes paying taxes, but what people really hate is when their tax dollars are wasted or, worse, when the money they have worked so hard…

Your recommendation to the President was to reduce the number of existing monuments.

I am asking a very simple question. You are the Secretary of the Interior.

So, you don't even know, anecdotally, whether it was supportive or not?

I certainly think that if we want to talk about a commitment and a show of force, at least to Russia, that we are committed to Europe, that would be the route to do it.

Russia will likely never, in my opinion, present a clear violation of NATO's Article 5, but they will always, you know, try to be like the petulant teenager that they are.

I am proud to say that, for 242 years, whenever and wherever America's freedom has been threatened, we called in the Marines. A Marine Corps infantry platoon is trained to close with and destroy the enemy by firearm and maneuver. That is…

In June, seven American heroes died on a dark night when a ship collided with an American destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald. Among the dead were immigrants from Vietnam and the Philippines, as well as sons of workers who journeyed north from…

In my years in politics, if we had ever done something of this nature, where we skip over the local elected officials... we would call that somewhat of a sham.

To begin with, I have a question for Mr. Pollock. Mr. Pollock, you are the Chairman of the Garfield County Commission. Is that correct?

There they go again. Donald Trump and Paul Ryan are dusting off a familiar Republican playbook. I will break it down for you: Step one, slash taxes for millionaires and billionaires; Step two, explode the deficit; Step three, use rising…