Zoe Lofgren

the national government to work, it had to be competent to enact, execute, and adjudicate its own laws.

Before yielding to the gentleman from North Carolina, I would like to correct the record. The Joint Committee on the Library organized last Wednesday. Until last Wednesday, the Joint Committee was chaired by Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri…

May I ask how much time remains on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Schrier). The gentlewoman has 11\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Georgia has 3 minutes remaining.

Just a note of the process. In fact, Arkansas is now selecting an artist to develop the Bates statue that has to be approved before we can proceed. Meanwhile, even though they want to get rid of that statue, it stays here. If we pass this…

It seems to me our real focus ought to be on the Fourth Amendment.

Well, the other speakers we are expecting I think are caught up in a long appropriations markup, so you may proceed. I reserve the balance of my time.

This hearing is a critical first step in creating a truly whole of government response to wildfire risks.

I thank Chairwoman Johnson and Ranking Member Lucas for their extraordinary bipartisan leadership on these bills. These two bills recognize the urgency of Federal scientific investment. Over the past few decades, Federal spending on R&D…

It's not right for Congress not to act to bolster our wildlife research, it's also dangerous.

In fact, the wildland fires has grown from a season to really all year round.

It is vital that the best available science is used to inform operational decisions on the frontlines of wildfires.

We all believe in the rule of law, and we think that--and I know you do too--that the rule of law applies to the government as well.

Thanks to you, Director Wray, for your service to our country.

If I may--they also found that the FBI had used data for internal domestic investigations. That's a violation of the purpose of 702.

In the end, what we have seen is that its diminishment of congressional authority relative to executive authority.

To fail to act today is really to turn your backs on the men and women who fought as Capitol Police officers just yards from where we stand today. They were maimed. Their eyes were gouged. They lost fingers. Some of them died. Don't turn…

Most of what is in this bill doesn't need a change in the law. You don't need a change in the law to provide training to the Capitol Police. That is baseline what our obligation is. We failed to actually do what we are required to do, and…

We had a hearing yesterday that went for more than 3 hours. We are likely to have additional hearings on that matter. It is not clear at the moment whether the board needs to be replaced, whether it was failings of the structure, or…

I would take exception to that. The House Administration Committee has had more oversight and more hearings, both at a Member level and a staff level, than any other committee in the House or Senate about the Capitol Police. We don't have…

Will the gentlewoman yield? Ms. DeLAURO. I yield to the gentlewoman from California.

Voting is fundamental for American citizens. It is the whole basis for our country's freedom.

the number one priority, and they are all important, is to finish the modernization of the office.

I think about a lot of Americans are great people, and I have heard people say, my family immigrated the right way, and that's all we want.

At the end of the day, a fair process is treating everyone as individuals, knowing what the process is going to be when you apply, and taking into account birthplaces is just not a reasonable basis for an immigration system.

I urge adoption of this bill that allows individuals who have obviously valid travel documents to contact a member of their family or counsel if they are held for an extended period of time at a U.S. port of entry. It has nothing to do…