Steve King

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed. Amendment No. 38 Offered by Mr. Garamendi The Acting CHAIR. It…

This is a new piece of information for me, glow-in- the-dark hemp. I know that they have spliced a gene from a jellyfish into a monkey and it glows also in the dark, so I'm confident that the gentleman's science is accurate. But whether we…

Reclaiming my time, I might want to do a night field trip up there and see that fluorescent hemp field.

Reclaiming my time, I recognize that the gentleman's amendment only applies to States that have already legalized it, and that's true. Nonetheless, I urge opposition to this amendment, Mr. Chairman, under the basis that we haven't had a…

I would like to remark to the gentleman from Colorado that it wasn't a surprise to me to see that Colorado is the State that has legalized marijuana and so we also see the advocacy for this coming from the safe place. Perhaps it's a…

I seek time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

I would ask you to take a look at both of those letters and consider, if they are classified, to release them.

I think that was a window, and there might be hundreds and perhaps more than hundreds that come through a window like that.

Thanks, Director, for your testimony and your services.

We should have an immigration policy that is designed to enhance the economic, the social, and the cultural well-being of the United States of America.

I believe we have an obligation as a Nation to square away the rule of law, protect the American people.

We have to create laws that are going to make the executive do their job.

If the President won't enforce existing law, why would we expect him to enforce new law?

It's illegal for the Administration, political appointees to tell us to not to follow the laws enacted by Congress.

At this point, most officers and agents just try to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble.

It would be the policies of the Obama administration; specifically, the prosecutorial discretion memorandum in this case as well as other policies.

Because the U.S. law directs that they be placed into deportation proceedings?

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Ellison

I have an amendment at the desk, Mr. Chairman. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. 419. None of the funds made…

I have been sitting here ruminating a little bit about the letter that was read. Very interesting, you know? Children with renal agenesis are not entitled to a chance at life? Children with Down syndrome are not entitled to a chance to…

So that is determined by the prospect of their survival, as well as their geography?

Dr. Martin Luther King said something that occurs to me in a very profound way. He said our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that really matter.

Milton Friedman said you cannot coexist with an open-borders policy and a cradle-to-grave welfare state.

I will tell you that I don't believe Barack Obama would be president today if Ronald Reagan hadn't made the most colossal mistake of his career in signing the 1986 amnesty act.

And as far as I can see there's no prospect that people that haven't committed felonies or people that haven't committed these three serious mysterious misdemeanors, there's no prospect that those that came here after December 31st, 2011…