Jody Hice

Congressman Hice--I saw Congressman Hice earlier. I had the honor of meeting Governor Nathan Deal, who previously led your home state of Georgia.

We have got some 70 million individuals that have a criminal record in this country.

the opportunity here is great.

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The Office of Government Ethics is a prevention and education agency. OGE is responsible for ensuring compliance with ethics requirements, such as financial disclosure and conflict of interest rules. These are the folks that the executive…

I want to thank you for being here, and recognize your expertise in so many different groups and organizations that supported you being appointed to this position.

I am extremely disappointed with the direction of this Committee and the Subcommittees in these first few weeks of business.

This deal calls for a massive mobilization of resources, resources that could be more appropriately used to pay down $11.6 billion in Park Service maintenance backlog.

this resolution does just the opposite.

unless we take action which includes massively expanding government, ultimately destroying federalism, and restricting individual liberties.

to meet the Nation's power needs entirely with clean energy would require almost 500,000 on- and off-shore wind turbines and over 75 million solar panels, and would cost roughly $7 trillion.

In closing, I'm all for protecting the environment and clean energy however until we have figure out a way to harness the sun, wind and water to sustain ourselves, we need to use what we have especially if it can lower energy cost, create…

Fortunately, our Nation has an abundant supply of natural gas that is the solution to our Nation's energy questions.

When the government creates policies, its first priority should be the welfare of the people, especially those impacted the hardest, rather than big business and special interest groups looking for a handout.

The bottom line: any policy that contributes to energy poverty is a bad one for low income and minority communities.

It forces States to automatically register people, which may sound good on the surface, but what this will do is open the floodgates for fraudulent voting.

When the government creates policy, its first priority should be the welfare of the people, especially those impacted the hardest, rather than big businesses and special interests looking for a handout.

I would just--Mr. Chairman, all of us want integrity at the voting booth, but if you are somehow implying that only Republicans have been engaged in voter fraud, I challenge that and take great offense at it.

It is my hope that today's hearing underscores the need for bold climate action. We must put our differences aside and take the aggressive actions needed to safeguard our planet for future generations.

I strongly disagree with that. Case in point would just simply be the so-called Affordable Care Act was signed into law about 10 years.

``In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have…

I thank my good friend, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, for his leadership on this. I am honored to be a part of this group dealing with a problem that we all know is a reality and yet so few seem to be willing to do anything about. We…

I don't think anyone here denies the fact that Russia attempted to meddle in the elections.

So I think the point of that move being very positive in every way without creating the fear and the turmoil that was expected by some is a valid point for what we are doing now.

It is time to stand with our ally on the Golan and against these common enemies.