Xavier Becerra

I will stand here today in support of this agreement, but with some trepidation. First, I have to say that Chile and Singapore perhaps represent the type of country that we would like to extend these free trade agreements to, the…

The original purpose behind H.R. 1528 was good. When we take a look at the title, the Taxpayer Protection and IRS Accountability Act of 2003 and we take a look at the provisions that relate to protections for our taxpayers and…

Mr. Speaker, for my colleagues and the American public that perhaps have not quite figured out what is going on here when we are trying to help working families through a child tax credit, H.R. 1308, I believe, boils down to two things…

Mr. Speaker, Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom, the recent record of investment advisers serving their own interests above those of employees or investors is an unambiguous one and is not a pretty one. The time is not right for this…

That is a crucial point because people are saying, you would not do this to anyone else and we have never done it to anyone else in the Senate. That is not true. What is being asked of the White House to produce memoranda that were…

let me begin first by thanking the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Rodriguez) for yielding me some time and for taking this opportunity to speak on a very important issue which oftentimes, given the crush of the agenda here in Washington, D.C…

I believe the gentleman from Texas is helping to set the record straight. It is fascinating that as we are here discussing a very important subject of who will serve for a lifetime on our judicial courts, that we have to discuss this in…

In pointing out that the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has taken an explicit position against him, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Rodriguez) is absolutely right, that MALDEF has been at the forefront of issues…

For those who may not know what LULAC is, it is the League of United Latin American Citizens. It is the oldest civil rights organization representing Hispanics nationwide in the country.

I guess if we look at what was proposed by the Republican majority today versus what was proposed last year, this is generous because this proposal that we have before us provides 13 weeks of unemployment compensation for about a million…

Mr. Speaker, it is somewhat painful to say that we begin the 108th Congress today with new Members, a new majority in the Senate under Republican control, a Republican-controlled House, a Republican in the White House, and the first order…

Any nation engaged in a program of building weapons of mass destruction presents a danger to international peace and stability. Any leader who flouts the rule of law is a menace to liberty and democracy. In my mind, the President has made…

I feel it is again important for us to support our military and pass H.R. 5557. During these times when we depend on our men and women in uniform to perform the highest levels of service, and we place them in harm's way, and I need not…

Time and time again this year, rather than being in a posture to work with the other side of the aisle on issues that really matter, the budget, the economy, Social Security, health care, corporate responsibility, growing unemployment…

a year ago I stood on this same floor of the people's House as the ruins still smoldered, the families still prayed and hoped, and all of us searched for ways to explain and prepare for the events that were to unfold. I will never forget…

It is not those of us on this side of the aisle who brought this legislation forward, and it is not that we wish to constantly raise the point that these are tax measures that have tax cuts, that help principally wealthy individuals. That…

I call it a missed opportunity. To be honest, and we should all be honest, we had a chance to meaningfully promote the elimination of abusive child labor practices by our trading partners. We had a chance to protect our domestic laws on…

What are we doing today? Well, we have a bill from the majority today before us that would cost, during its first 10 years in effect, about $460 billion. But, it will not take effect for the next 7 years, so none of the benefits that are…

I, too, rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 213, regarding North Korean refugees in China. It appears that we continue to see the numbers grow of North Koreans who are fleeing their country, many of whom have ended up in China.

I stand here today to support our troops fighting terrorism, not just abroad but certainly here at home, to support all our men and women in law enforcement civilly who are doing the same, to support our medical personnel, our community…

What this legislation does, it removes the objective person's standard of what is reasonable under the Constitution, and says what is subjectively reasonable. So that if the officer said, well, I believed I was reasonable in going after…

This bill does not try to mistreat our employees, the men and women who place themselves in harm's way every day to defend this country against terrorism, who try to interdict the drugs that many would have come into our country, and it…

Mr. Chairman, we need to do everything we can to give our law enforcement men and women the tools they need. This bill does a lot to go that route of giving them the resources, the tools they need. One of the tools they do not need is the…

the further point where the gentleman from Indiana misstates what is current law and what I said, we base it because the Supreme Court has said, not on what the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) believes is reasonable or what I believe…

Mr. Chairman, the substitute is very simple, because for the most part, as I believe most of us have said earlier, this bill is actually a very good bill. It just has two provisions which are heinous, which go against our Constitution. If…