Now is the time for immigration reform. Our Nation is already beginning to see some of the great economic benefits of the DACA and DAPA programs, which I vow to do my best to protect here as we go through the Department of Homeland…

It is week five of the 114th Congress, and I really feel like that movie ``Groundhog Day,'' where the same day just keeps repeating itself over and over and over again. This is the 56th time that we have been through this particular…

We do not need to start this new Congress going down a path of legislative brinkmanship and crises of our own making. We shouldn't be treating funding for our national security like a political pawn. There are differences of opinion about…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the Republicans are playing partisan games with our country's border security and our safety. By tacking on unrelated immigration measures to a basic funding bill for…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 242, noes 180, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 21] AYES--242…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by 5-minute votes on adopting…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this rule. First of all, when we have spending bills that make it here to the…

For more than four decades the United States has pursued a policy of an embargo against our neighboring nation to the south, Cuba. President Obama has taken the first steps towards moving towards the end of isolating the Cuban people and…

The Department of Homeland Security is about keeping our Nation and our citizens safe. Just as we fund the military to face threats abroad, Department of Homeland Security does that work to keep our communities safe at home. Now is not the…

Reclaiming my time, if it exists already, I don't know why you are passing this bill. The truth is it does not exist to move the oil from the tar sands of Canada to our ports for export. That is what we are talking about here. As far as I…

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. The vote…

Should we reward American companies and entrepreneurs for their hard work and productivity, or should we reward them for having the best lobbyists in Washington? Well, unfortunately today, with our bloated corporate Tax Code full of…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 244, noes 181, not voting 4, as follows: [Roll No. 12] AYES--244 Abraham…

It is my privilege to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Beyer) for his very first speech here on the floor of the House of Representatives.

And I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the rule and both of the underlying bills. Let's talk a little bit about how these bills got before us, what the…

So here we are, Mr. Speaker. We have two bills that didn't go through any committee and that no Member of this body, Democrat or Republican, had a chance to amend. They went to the Rules Committee. No Members are allowed to amend them on…

Let's talk a little bit about what that means. The Rules Committee is not the committee of jurisdiction for these bills. Now, that sounds complicated, but what does that mean? We have specialists here in Congress, specialized staff…

I thank Congresswoman Lee for her constant leadership on this issue. When I was born in 1975, the embargo with Cuba was already more than a decade old. I never knew a time when Americans could go to Cuba or legally import goods and…

The motion that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) will make might be our last opportunity in this Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. We have a bipartisan bill right here in the House of Representatives. It is…

Well, unfortunately, yet again, we have been stymied in our efforts to address a critical issue facing the American people with a bill that would create over 250,000 jobs for American citizens, would secure our border, restore the rule of…

So again, I was excited that perhaps the Rules Committee was going to consider emergency legislation on public health or Ebola or the war with ISIS or our budget. How about a deficit of half a trillion dollars, I call that an emergency…

I thank the gentleman from Arizona and the gentleman from Alaska. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the legislation that I was proud to author, the Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2014, H.R. 4846. This legislation…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. I rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act. Last night, we got a notice that the Rules Committee was going to…

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' to defeat the previous question. I urge a ``no'' vote on the rule. I encourage us to stay here and address immigration reform so that we can solve this issue for our country, reduce our deficit, and…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 227, noes 193, not voting 11, as follows: [Roll No. 511] AYES--227…