Our colleague Rahm Emanuel famously said: ``You never let a serious crisis go to waste.'' Today, my Democratic colleagues are not letting a serious crisis go to waste. While America is focused on the tragedy halfway around the world in…

I thank everyone here for giving serious consideration to amendment No. 24 to H.R. 4502. Madam Speaker, I speak today with my colleagues to support an expansion that was done under the last administration that has had a profound and…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Issa moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1573 to the Committee on the Judiciary. The material…

In the language of the motion to recommit H.R. 1573, no one will doubt that Congress either does or does not have the intent to make sure that the voters and our taxpayers are protected. I urge my colleagues to support the motion to…

In closing, I urge passage of this bill, I recommend that all Members vote ``yes,'' and I yield back the balance of my time.

It is now my pleasure to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Wagner), who has done so much on this bill.

Both sides of the aisle are united behind this good, sensible extension of law. Madam Speaker, I strongly recommend that all of our Members vote for it, and I yield back the balance of my time.

When a member of this body was incarcerated for something that John Adams felt was injurious to him under the Sedition Act, it was retroactive. He had written it before the act was passed and the act was, in fact, not in keeping with our…

I find myself sort of the oldest freshman in my class returning after just a 2-year hiatus and finding a House that I am having a hard time understanding how it got so bad in such a short period of time. As my colleague on the other side…

The last speaker said that for 4 years the President did all these terrible, inciteful things, including anti- Semitism. I take exception with that. But I think it is important that we embrace one thing that was said. Yes, the President…

I want to thank the Energy and Commerce Committee for giving me an opportunity to, one, speak in support of this bill; and, two, take just a couple of minutes to say what is wrong with this body on one bill that you won't see here today…

I am with my friend, and would like to associate all of my further comments with his. So, again, I urge support for this bipartisan legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on…