What I see as our foreign policy is a circle. It is like a tiger chasing its tail for the last 25 to 30 years.

Mr. Speaker, this week the House will spend a lot of time talking about education and what's best for our students, but I want to make sure we spend a few moments to recognize America's teachers. Just after the tornadoes in Oklahoma this…

My goal today is to find out why Abu Dhabi was chosen, the criteria that went into the decision and if there are better uses with our resources.

The fact that we still have not brought to justice those who attacked us is a travesty.

I appreciate the gentlelady from Minnesota yielding. You were talking about the rule of law, and we heard about it over and over again and what the people back home think. I think the biggest thing is they're going to hold us accountable…

Yes, ma'am. I'm hearing the same thing: close the border, secure the border. Somebody said, well, what percent would you want it secured: 70, 80, 90 percent? I said, well, if you were in an airplane and they only had 90 percent of the fuel…

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, let's hope by having hearings like this...

I'd hate to see our young men and women go overseas. They need to stay here and build America strong.

I would like to thank the gentlelady from Minnesota, my home State, for allowing me to speak tonight on this very important topic. This is a perfect example where Congress has failed to lead on immigration for the last 30 years, and it's…

It's just not acceptable that we're spending this money there and then we go back to our taxpayers and say, hey, guess what, you got to send more money in and we're borrowing 43 cents on every dollar to send over here.

the American people are tired of that. We've got to change our foreign policy and what we do.