Tom Tancredo

It is designed specifically for the purpose of trying to identify those children who are truly in need of the services that we appropriate money for here, and distinguish them from those children who are not, but who are placed into these…

Currently, 7 percent of all students enrolled in Catholic schools are identified as disabled. Less than 1 percent of them get services. They generate $10 million in revenue for the schools in IDEA. The schools actually get about $78,000…

I rise tonight to point to a couple of issues that I think deserve our attention. As I do on many occasions, I come here to address the issue of immigration and the reform thereof. I would like to start tonight with a discussion of a…

it was a little over a year ago that I had the opportunity to visit with a gentleman who was, at that time, the head of a ministry in the Vicente Fox government in Mexico. His name was Juan Hernandez. Mr. Hernandez was head of a new agency…

It is amazing. If we had listened for any length of time to our friends on the other side of the aisle, we would have heard time and time and time again that the following rhetoric; we would have heard something like this: Oh, my God, they…

the Washington Times carried an interesting article on March 28. Headlines read: Bonner Says U.S. Borders Sealed Better Than Ever. ``America is better protected against terrorists and weapons of mass destruction today than it ever has…

If we cannot control our borders because we are trying to let illegal immigrants come across from Mexico who are not trying to do anything really bad to us, we cannot possibly hope to protect ourselves from those who are trying to do…

there are words we should remember. There are quotes worth quoting again. Here is one: ``If we are to prevail in the long run, we must expand the long-run strength of our economy. We must move along the path to a higher rate of growth and…

I rise tonight to add another family to the list of what we are calling ``homeland heroes.'' These are people who have faced incredible odds and very, very difficult times, who live on the border, northern and southern borders of this…

as we rightfully address the issues that are confronting us overseas and the possibility of sending American troops into harm's way, I think it is also important for us to think about those people who are here in the United States, those…

Yesterday I brought forward to the House a picture and a little story about an individual who died on the border last August. His name was Chris Eggle. Mr. Eggle was an employee of the United States Government acting in the capacity of a…

it will be interesting as times goes by and as we begin the debate on the budget, which will come up in a relatively short order, it will be very interesting to hear our friends on the other side who have spoken so long and eloquently…

Today we have successfully debated and passed a bill to provide an extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who find themselves out of work. This is a laudable activity for us to be involved with and I was proud to be…

It is discouraging to think about the fact that regardless of who happens to run this place, the Republicans or the Democrats, it appears to me, anyway, as we look over the numbers over the last couple of decades, that it really hardly…

I want to address the House tonight on an issue of importance, I think, to the Nation in terms of what we are facing in the area of domestic policy decision, which I think is an extremely important one for the country. Not surprisingly, I…

I do not know how many ways we can put this. This is an above-the-line deduction that we are proposing. It does not matter about the deductions that they have. It is above-the-line. It will come to them regardless. It will, in fact, help…

I was glad to be able to do that, because I wanted his parents to see that someone does know, someone does care; that the Congress of the United States, at least many Members of it, are well aware of the sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice…

I certainly hope we will do that. I hope we will begin a process that will eventually lead to our being able to tell our constituents that we are living up to the commitments we have made to try to protect and defend this Nation. No matter…

one of the ways in which this whole issue can be described includes a connection to the war on terrorism. Because it is not only the southern border where we see this kind of activity, but, as I say, I just returned a little bit ago from…

I rise this afternoon in order to bring to the attention of the body a serious, in fact I think an extremely dangerous, problem that the United States faces in the area of immigration and immigration reform and specifically the problems we…

many of our colleagues have come to the floor today to express their deep commitment to doing everything that can be done to ensure the protection of the American people. It is a laudable sentiment, but one that rings hollow when…

I am all for art. And I can assure Members, if we defeat this amendment, and if we struck all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, there would still be art. It actually existed before the National Endowment for the Arts. It…

absolutely. Here is the thing: we are now 10 months past 9-11. We can talk about the errors we have made in the Congress in the past and the errors this government has made in the past in the crazy-quilt patchwork type of immigration…

Mr. Speaker, again, I want to just say that there has been an enormous amount of talk about the need to protect the United States from future terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, there has not been enough action, certainly far more talk than…

as we stand here tonight on the floor of the House, fires are raging in my State of Colorado, fires so devastating, fires so great in proportion. Historically, they are great in proportion, and they are so big that they can be seen, as we…