I expected to arrive here in this Congress and continue with a budget that was balanced by the will and the majority of the House and the Senate.

As I listen to that rebuttal, I would like to bring back a little more of the history of this, and it is this: that Davis-Bacon, and I have been looking at this a long time, as far as I know, and I believe it is true, is the last remaining…

I have an amendment at the desk made in order by the rule. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division C (before the short title), insert the following Sec. __…

We have to bring a balanced budget.

The provisions that are necessary that I would point out to the body, Mr. Speaker, are this: The number one most important is this: We only have 5,000 ICE agents for 50 States and territories. They are spread so thin they can't possibly…

I am privileged to be recognized by the gentlewoman from Wyoming, and I rise in support of this combined rule that we have here. I thought it was important that I speak to some of the provisions that are in the underlying bill and also the…

I want my brothers to do that work and I want you to pay me my allowance anyway.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. And I have no better friend in this city either--or this country, for that matter. Mr. Speaker, I am just called to come to this floor to add a few words to the topic that the gentleman from…

It is my privilege and honor to address you here from the floor of the House of Representatives in this great deliberative body that has been deliberating all day long in the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act. The work that…

Reclaiming my time, I am always happy to yield to the gentleman from Tennessee, and I appreciate his contribution to the United States Congress while I have served here, and each year that he has been here as well. Mr. Speaker, I would…

I thank the chairman for yielding and for working this legislation through and facilitating that it comes to the floor this week. This week, the event of ``Hold Their Feet to the Fire'' is being held where many of the families of those who…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I would like to reciprocate in a compliment to the gentleman from Texas, who stands here and leads in this Congress every day, and takes on a heavy load in the Rules Committee. A…

I thank the chairman of the Judiciary Committee not only for working with and cooperating on all this legislation, but for the relentless work that has come forward in the committee. He has spent a lot of time on this floor and in…

I appreciate that response. I wanted to roll through what our sanctuary cities legislation does that we just passed today, and it goes a pretty good, long, comprehensive way. I pointed out that I brought the first sanctuary cities…

Every day in this country, at the hands of criminal aliens, people who are lawfully here are suffering, and they are paying a huge price. There isn't a way that we quantify loss to a crime. The crime victim is often out of the equation…

It is my honor and privilege to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and have an opportunity, in this great deliberative body, to bring up the subject matters of my choice, and the purpose is to…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his presentation in bringing this topic together in a way that he has. And in his method of addressing the Declaration of Independence on the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I have a statement before me from Chairman Goodlatte, the chairman of the full Judiciary Committee. I am going to represent this as his statement, but the chairman thanks the gentleman from…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this improving amendment which would save even more Federal taxpayer dollars by requiring the filing of affidavits of merit from an appropriately qualified…

I inquire as to the amount of time I have remaining. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Iowa has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. I want to express, Mr. Chairman, how much I appreciate the work that has been done by so many people and their part in this bill. I rise in support of this improving amendment--it comes out of…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for his leadership on the Rules Committee and in many other ways; and I also thank Dr. Burgess, another gentleman from Texas on the Rules Committee whose amendment is being offered by Mr. Sessions. As I…

I am happy to accept the time from the gentleman from Tennessee and make the point that hasn't been made very well here today that--apparently, not well enough or the gentleman wouldn't have yielded the time to me, I don't believe--where…

I thank Dr. Roe, the gentleman from Tennessee, for bringing this amendment. Looking at the language here, it is interesting that the concern was that the witnesses may not be available within a large State. I notice, as I read the…

Today's hearing will examine the ethical responsibilities related to attorney advertising.