if we raise the minimum wage to $10.10, we would have 3.6 million fewer people receiving SNAP.

On rollcall No. 484, I was not present to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

I want to first thank all the people that worked so hard to put this language together, and it makes me feel good to see the team that has done so. But I also think there is a misunderstanding as to what happened with how we got to this…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia. Mr. Speaker, this just restores the constitutional authority of the United States Congress, and it says: President Obama, don't continue to violate this Constitution. President Obama, when you waved…

I appreciate the gentleman from Virginia, Chairman Goodlatte, for yielding. There are a lot of people in this Congress that I appreciate a great deal tonight, but I have listened to the anger and the fury over on the other side, and I have…

I appreciate the opportunity to be recognized to address you here on the United States floor of the House of Representatives in this most deliberative body that we have and are. I appreciate the comments and the position taken by the…

the quick response of the hot cup of coffee in the House of Representatives isn't adequate.

I'm not saying let's get an independent counsel statute back on the books, but I'm saying you're the Attorney General of the United States. This is a mess.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for leading on this Special Order to have this discussion about the sovereignty and the safety and the protection of Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East, the place where there is a rule of…

I took Mr. Gutierrez's advice last weekend and went down to the border, started at the mouth of the Rio Grande River.

It is my honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, this great deliberative body that we are in. We have had a lot of debates and discussions here on the floor over the time that…

I think the Administration has made the decision to totally tear asunder the rule of law and grant administrative amnesty to 5 or more million people, and do so while this Congress is out of session.

I will try to conform my comments into that time period. Mr. Speaker, the immigration issue has emerged now as the number one topic in front of the American people again. I had hoped that we had set it aside. I had hoped that we would go…

No matter what side of the aisle you sit on, we can all agree on the importance of SNAP and helping those in need.

I want to thank the gentleman from Arizona for that outstanding transition that he made here. I actually came down to chide him just a little bit. I was listening very closely to what he had to say, and it was very valuable, the comments…

This is the amendment that strikes the funds that might be used to enforce the Davis-Bacon wage scale. That is a piece of legislation that passed here in this Congress sometime about 1931. It was designed to keep African Americans out of…

I have an amendment at the desk. 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. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

It is my privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives and to take up these topics that I appreciate your attention to. As the other Members disperse across this Hill and over to their offices…

The title of the bill is the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, an amendment to it, and it addresses this topic. The topic is how we reach an agreement with the countries that are noncontiguous like…

if we're going to move kids into America with the idea that we're going to get them away from violence, we at least have to keep them out of Detroit.

So it's really not a matter of illegal immigration, it is a humanitarian disaster with children, not parents but children, babies.

It is my privilege to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives, and I appreciate the opportunity to do so. There are a number of topics that are on my mind, and generally for me, Mr. Speaker, it flows from the previous…

I think we're consistent with that in our testimony that I hear, or at least relatively close.

the most violent countries in the world, 8 of 10 of them are to our southern border.

I would ask if you could speak to that issue, because I don't think we heard from your side of this.