This is about a moral dilemma that we face in this country.

About 50 percent of all detainees are held in private detention centers.

If you want to cut the budget, you want to cut food stamps. But yet, last year alone, we appropriated nearly $18 billion to immigration enforcement agencies.

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Conyers-Watt substitute amendment. I must say that this has been a very spirited debate here today, but I would be remiss not to come back to speak on the issue of an inventor such as Danny Ross, a…

So prior to 1934, there was something called the ``conformity principle,'' which held that Federal Court procedures should be in accordance with the States wherein those Federal Courts sat; but that proved to be unworkable, so the rules…

Madam Chairman, I think it is time this morning to reveal a little bit of truth. We have had reports of trolls just running through the marketplace of America. Trolls--you know those, the ones that hang out under bridges and scare you when…

This hearing is pure political theater. It is a farce plain and simple.

Madam Speaker, I rise in continued support of the Affordable Care Act and the promise of high quality, affordable health care for all. Republicans and right-wing media are obsessed with problems about healthcare.gov. This law is more than…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to H.R. 982, the so-called FACT Act. The FACT Act would require asbestos trusts to publicly disclose extensive amounts of private information about asbestos victims on a public Web site. These quarterly…

How do you determine claimants individually with that level of information that you just described?

Thank you. Asbestos victims who seek compensation for their injuries should retain the same privacy protections as other patients, as well as other people who make claims for personal injury.