Matt Gaetz

this is an issue where there is unequivocal--an unequivocal position of the Air Force that they need this.

And I believe it was Chairman Smith who said during his opening statement that on the Korean Peninsula, we are at a high-water mark since the cessation of conflict during the Korean war.

I would ask the gentleman, as we try to take these good ideas that seem to not be emerging from the Federal Government but from several States and from local communities that are doing some of their own great work, I feel at times like you…

I appreciate the gentleman mentioning our oceans. As someone from a coastal State that means a great deal to me.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. With all due respect to the gentleman from Arizona, he is very weird in that he runs his congressional office like a think tank where people contemplate the ways that technology can improve healthcare…

It doesn't strike me as an enviable outcome. I do thank the gentleman again for yielding for this discussion. It is my sincere hope that this is a discussion that we can have with Members of Congress from urban districts, rural districts…

So what is the get-out-of-jail-free card so that we can liberate ourselves from a policymaking climate that seems to be more robust in virtue signaling than in actually following data?

As I deliver these remarks, the people of Venezuela are without food, water, medicine, and now even electricity. The organizing principle of American policy seems to be the need to drive Maduro from power. What if Maduro is not really in…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I fully associate myself with the comments of the gentleman from New York condemning anti-Semitism, full stop, an entirely appropriate thing to do. I just think it is curious how we ended up here. We…

I come to the floor to remember my good friend and our late colleague Representative Walter Jones. Walter Jones was someone who deeply cared about this institution and the constitutional principles that undergird our service. He was a…

I guess tomorrow we will find out if there is anyone that Michael Cohen hasn't lied to. We already know he lied to Congress. We already know he lied to law enforcement, lied to the IRS, lied to three banks, and he is going to prison for…

Absolutely not. It's witness testing. When people come before the Congress with an intent to perpetuate their continuous lies, we have an opportunity and I would say an obligation to test who those people lie to.

It's not a function of a greater desire to have the children in the country for the sake of having the children in the country.

This is the reason I brought a minor child with me. She was my passport.

I appreciate and I take with all sincerity the concern my colleagues have about children being separated from their families once they reach the United States.

Hey, Michael Cohen, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. She's about to learn a lot.

What do we think would happen in this country if we said we were only going to lock up 1,000 people, total, for murder? Well, probably, after the thousandth person was arrested and locked up, you would have a lot more murders, not less…

If we really cared about safer streets, we would build a wall and secure the border, and we would do it post haste.

We all are entitled to our own opinions and views on how to address gun violence, but I don't believe that we are entitled to our own facts.

I think that was a rather instructive moment for the committee, Mr. Chair, because as we gather here in Washington, there are a divergent series of views and inputs and thoughts.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. As we gather here on the floor, the gentleman from Texas and I would note that most Americans are working on a Wednesday afternoon at 3:20 eastern time. Most Americans are trying to advance…

Here we are, 2\1/2\ weeks away from a potential government shutdown. It is not 5 yet, and I am on the floor of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and there is functionally nobody here. I choose to address the body…

I have every confidence that during your leadership, this committee will be more engaging and transparent and robust in the discussion than we were during the 115th Congress.

I had hoped that at one of our initial meetings we would have been giving powers back to the States in the form of removing cannabis from the list of Schedule I drugs rather than taking powers from the States.

it doesn't make much sense to me that the way to make our voting system more secure and more trusted is to empower the people who have degraded that system to come back and participate in it.