I thank the gentleman from Florida. Mr. Speaker, what is particularly frustrating is that Congress is going home on December 13, not to work for the remaining 2\1/2\ weeks of the year. I think most Americans would love to get off a week…

We have the chair of my committee to file a rule here on the floor the House. Sadly, it is not a rule for comprehensive immigration reform, but it is a rule for something very important, the budget, which hopefully we will be able to agree…

I would like to point out that my friend from Miami, Florida, placed out some of the arguments that we hear our friends making as to why immigration reform is not happening. We did not present those as a straw man. We invited our friends…

Each of those deportations, Mr. Speaker, cost you and I, cost American taxpayers, approximately $15,000. So guess who is paying for the 2 million deportations? Guess what is one of the growing causes of our deficit spending? Our broken…

I thank the gentleman from Florida. I will speak briefly, and then I will have more later. Mr. Speaker, there are so many activists in our country who are fasting, who are sitting in offices, who are writing their Congresspeople, who are…

I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Marino), an original sponsor of the underlying bill that I introduced with him 2 weeks ago and a cosponsor of this amendment.

I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz), a cosponsor of the amendment.

I would point out that very little of the arguments made by the gentleman from California were related to this particular amendment. Much of that was stuff that may have been loosely related to the overall bill. I yield 1 minute to the…

I am thankful for Chairman Goodlatte and his staff and the committee for their work on this bill and increasing demand letter transparency in both the committee mark and working with us on the floor to incorporate a bipartisan amendment…

Woman, I thank the gentleman from Virginia. When we look at the cost, not just of litigation, but of companies having to consult with lawyers at times because of completely frivolous letters that they get that are vague with regard to what…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 14, line 20, insert after ``accused,'' the following: ``identifies the ultimate parent entity of the…

This amendment is important. First, I like the way my colleague Mr. Chaffetz put it: the right to face your accuser in court is an important part of our justice system. There is a long way to go with regard to demand letter transparency…

And I certainly wish that we had acted on immigration reform. We did pass under Democratic control a DREAM Act, if the gentleman will recall, in the waning days of the 111th Congress, and did take at least one constructive step with an…

The gentle people in the gallery, the men and women who are spending their time here, would not have to be in those galleries advocating if this House simply took up the bill. Do you think they want to be spending their time here, Madam…

I am here today, unfortunately, to talk about the continuing inaction of this body on immigration reform. It has been 159 days since the Senate passed a commonsense immigration reform bill securing our borders, creating jobs for Americans…

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 229, noes 185, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No. 619] AYES--229…

I am prepared to close, so I yield myself such time as I may consume. The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), rightly asserted that the Democrats did not, in fact, when they were in charge of the legislature in both Chambers, fix our…

There are many things that my good friend from Florida said that I agree with. I will be discussing some of the merits of these bills, but it is worthwhile to bring forward before discussing what these bills are, what these bills are not…

While I am actively encouraging Members on both sides of the aisle to get behind the Innovation Act and the Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act, I must urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question…

Reclaiming my time, 68 Members of the Senate, including many Republicans, including former Presidential Republican nominee John McCain, supported the Senate immigration reform bill. I certainly understand the desire to get it right, but…

I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Chu), a member of the Judiciary Committee, one of the key architects and somebody who worked very hard on this bill.

It seems more like we have been in a timeout for 3 months since these bills have passed committee.

I will be happy to talk about TPP for a moment. I have some time coming up on a different topic. But one of the issues around it has been the secrecy under which it has been negotiated. I actually, some months ago--to show that these are…

One of the ways that H.R. 15 was actually brought to the floor of the House and introduced was by the chief sponsor of the bill. The gentleman from Florida, in his short time in the House, has made an enormous impression, and particularly…

Will the Speaker understand that the Speaker is obstructing H.R. 15 from coming to the floor? Will the Speaker understand that? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend.