Ron DeSantis

So how are courts getting around that standing requirement?

Great. Well, I have some time left, but we are going to vote. I really appreciate the Chairman moving this along so I could just get in that question. I think it is an important issue.

the fact that things haven't 'changed' for the Cuban people, or have even gotten worse under the embargo, to me that is an indictment on the Castro regime.

Does this change benefit the Castro regime or the Cuban people fighting for freedom, or the American people?

The President's program, executive program that is subject of much controversy, where he is going to issue up to 5 million work permits to people who are in the Country illegally.

I thank the witnesses.

I wouldn't say that was clean. I would say that's a dirty bill. That's a violation of the Constitution.

The American people have every right to expect the government to abide by the laws of the land...

Had the government simply fulfilled its responsibility to protect the public and faithfully executed the law, Jamiel Shaw II would be alive today.

The District of Columbia now has adopted a law that will require all employers, including the Catholic Archdiocese, including Catholic University, including Alliance Defending Freedom, to pay for all elective abortions.

We are a government of, by, and for the American people.

The law can allow for unlimited immigration, limited immigration, or even zero immigration.

I think that is absolutely irresponsible that you won't even have this debate.

He harmed the American people's ability to govern themselves.

When the Government fails to enforce whatever laws happen to be on the books, it undermines our ability to govern ourselves.

The President issued his executive edict granting five million work permits and Social Security numbers for individuals illegally present in our Country.

When the President addressed this issue in September, the White House said that he had authority to act based on the 2001 and 2002 AUMF, and so the media is reporting that he is asking Congress for authority.

The IRS went to 'great lengths' and made 'extraordinary efforts' to recover Lerner's emails.

Funding should have stopped the minute that unity government was formed. That is what the law says. I don't think the administration was faithful to that.

Raul Castro said they are not changing. He said this is a victory for the Cuban revolution, and we are not going to change.

We are setting up a situation where the American worker is affirmatively disadvantaged.

When the President did the mini-amnesty in 2012, DACA, he had previously said he couldn't do that.

Illegal immigrants are exempt from Obamacare's employer mandate.

I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter sent by myself and Chairman Chaffetz dated January 29, 2015, to Secretary Jeh Johnson asking for the information in DHS's files about the man who killed Grant Ronnebeck.

the idea that you now have an entitlement to come back simply because you have a valid passport... struck me and a lot of my constituents as insufficient.