Norma Torres

When we first met last year, I had asked you specifically about ensuring that you hire people, you know, that look like America...

That is why it is so important to engage local law enforcement and to ensure that diversity is at the top of our priority.

Continuing on in this conversation, we are facing yet another Government shutdown.

I want to invite you to participate in a meeting with me to discuss these concerns and to come up with solutions to these problems.

The urgency of getting those maps preapproved and inspections of the infrastructure improvements in our communities is really important.

I want to apologize for the direction, the title of misguided--or misplaced focus on climate change.

In just 6 legislative days, the charter of the Export-Import Bank will expire. The Ex-Im Bank has proven an important tool in expanding U.S. exports and creating American jobs. It has done that with bipartisan support at zero cost to the…

It is irresponsible to hold homeland security funds hostage simply because some of my colleagues don't like the President's action on immigration. There is a time and place to have this debate--and this isn't it. I spent my career working…

I guess I would just have to ask the common sense question, what do we do now? And where do we go now?

I am deeply moved by the gentlewoman's gesture tonight of ordering this Special Order on my behalf and calling forth so many of my colleagues to come here. The greatest honor there is is to serve in this Chamber, the House of…

Mr. Speaker, it gives me a great honor to stand here with so many of my colleagues and pay tribute to a great American, Jerry Solomon. And as has been just mentioned, he and I will exit here together. We will not be here next term. But I…

I want to thank the chairmen of the committee and subcommittee, the ranking member, and the committee staff for their work on this bill and for attempting to achieve a balance within the small budget allotted to the subcommittee. As you…

He said that yesterday in the Committee on Rules and I explained to him in the Committee on Rules he better read his own bill because in his bill there are two sections to title I that are excluded as repealed in this bill.

I believe that this policy of lifting section 907 is simply a question of rewarding Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan does not deserve to be rewarded. Their government has blockaded Armenia and Nagorno-Karabagh for 9 years. The blockade has cut off…

I want to begin my remarks as I started out earlier by thanking the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) for his ongoing efforts to working with me on funding for the School of the Americas provided in the foreign operations bill. I would…

for 39 years the United States has maintained an economic embargo on the Republic of Cuba, all with the intent of toppling Fidel Castro. Thirty-nine years. Nine U.S. Presidents. And nothing has happened. He is still there. My colleagues…

I rise in support of increased funding for school construction and for bond initiatives to assist local communities in school improvement projects. I have received numerous letters from my constituents regarding the need for action in this…

I repeat again, the priests that were killed by militaries trained at the School of the Americas, and that the United States now is fully determined to chart a new course. We want to do that. The school represents an outdated approach to a…

I must note that the bill falls short in certain areas. While I respectively acknowledge the willingness of the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Callahan] to work with me and members of the subcommittee in addressing concerns that we all have…

the bill currently contains the so-called Leahy provision which was enacted last year. The Leahy amendment stipulates that if the Secretary of State finds credible evidence implicating a foreign military unit of gross human rights…

each year, for the past 5 or 6 years of my memory, my colleagues, Mr. Pallone and Mr. Porter, have organized this special congressional opportunity for this body to pause to honor the memory of the 1 million Armenians who were killed…

I remember in great anguish what this House went through many years ago as we were witnesses to that great civil war in Nicaragua. For so many years many of us had followed the impact that that had upon those people. I was also an…

I am honored today to join with the Texas delegation and my other colleagues in honoring Frank Tejeda for his years of service and dedication to our Nation. As we have heard, Frank Tejeda lived a life of hard work. He worked hard for his…

Mr. Speaker, let us really understand here what we are talking about when we say biosphere reserve. It is a term denoting an area that has been nominated by the locality and the country in which it is located for participation in the…

I rise to voice my strong opposition to this so-called immigration reform bill. There must be some confusion over what immigration actually means, over what immigration actually is. The dictionary defines immigration as ``coming into a…