Norma Torres

I urge my colleagues to support this amendment. Until we know where the North Korean regime gets its money, we won't know how much money they have to spend. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' and equip Secretary Pompeo with…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 229, noes 183, not voting 16, as follows: [Roll No. 319] AYES--229…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. This rule makes in order two bills and four amendments: H.R. 50, Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2017; and…

If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to bring up H.J. Res. 31, sponsored by Representatives Deutch and McGovern and Raskin, which would reserve Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United by enshrining…

I hope that we don't lose sight of the significant progress that CICIG has made.

At the end of the day, us here in Congress have to be accountable.

For too long, Israel has been unfairly singled out at the United Nations and elsewhere.

I urge all of the Members here in Congress to help continue to encourage USAID to do all that they can do to help these victims relocate within the Guatemalan border.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this rule makes in order 29 amendments to H.R. 6157, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal year…

We all care deeply about the beautiful country of Guatemala and I am encouraged that we can join together in support of the victims.

This bill is an important effort to address that problem and I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their hard work to address some of the First Amendment concerns that have been raised.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 230, noes 185, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 299] AYES--230…

I demand a recorded vote. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from California will be postponed. ____________________

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 226, noes 195, not voting 6, as follows: [Roll No. 280] AYES--226…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of adoption of the…

And I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess) for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. This rule makes in order H.R. 4760, the so-called Securing America's Future Act, and two amendments in the legislation. Before I speak on the…

Chairman Goodlatte just clarified that his bill has been in print for 6 months. I thank the gentleman for clarifying. The American people should know that your real intention was to allocate $100 million for the Trump wall, and it wasn't…

If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to strike the text of this rule and insert House Resolution 774, Representative Denham's bipartisan queen-of-the-hill resolution. This rule would bring up four separate…

This is zero policy that comes directly from President Trump. There is no law on any book. And if there is, I would like for the Secretary herself to point it out to me.

The President created this policy. The President created this mandate and gave it to his chief of staff who then directed his entire administration.

So what more can we do to help these institutions move forward with the good work that they're doing?

When a government decides that it is an important policy to rip away a baby that is nursing from its mother and that that is good policy, we have to challenge that.

These are the people that are on the front line as it relates to Mexican elections right now.

I want to urge you to continue to do that as well as working with civil societies.

This is not the American values that you fight for abroad.