I think an employer should be able to at least voluntarily use E-Verify to verify their current employees as well as new hires.

If we had enforced the laws that exist, would it work?

Would you agree, Mr. Teitelbaum, that there are many businesses in this country that have been predicated upon the presumption that there would be unskilled and often illegal labor to fill those ranks?

I appreciate you putting that into the record, thank you.

I think that is the right direction to go.

I thank the witnesses for your testimony. And this has been an engaging hearing, and I am looking forward to your answers.

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey, and I start again from the beginning, Mr. Speaker. This is the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I never imagined that we would be here 40 years afterwards, 55 million abortions afterwards, still…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding and for leading this Special Order on this 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Forty has a lot of biblical implications. Moses led them wandering in the desert for 40 years, and Jesus spent…

North Carolina: William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. South Carolina: John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. Georgia: William Few, Abraham Baldwin. New Hampshire: John Langdon…

This evening on rollcall No. 645, the Conference Report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, I intended to vote ``no'' but mistakenly cast a ``yes'' vote. ____________________

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding and for leading this Special Order to honor Jay Pierson. I'm sitting here, I'm glad I've had an opportunity to listen to the other Members talk about Jay Pierson's service to this Congress…

I thank the gentleman from Iowa for leading this discussion to have an opportunity to say some things about my friend, Leonard Boswell, across the floor. I have reflected on a number of things. In 1996, I aspired to run for the Iowa…

They interpreted the word significant to be insignificant, then, in other words?

I would first turn to Ms. Sommers.

I thank the gentleman. We only control between 7 percent and 11 percent of the legal immigration into this country on merit. The rest of that doesn't have anything to do with merit and how they contribute to the U.S. This bill does do…

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding to me. I point out, Mr. Speaker, that I have served on the Immigration Subcommittee for 10 years. In that period of time, I've sat in on dozens and scores and perhaps hundreds of hearings…

It is my honor and privilege to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and take up some of the issues that I think are so important to the dialogue before us here and the American people to consider as…

I think it does 2 things: it gets a lot of the overregulation out of the books, and it makes the bureaucrats then listen to the people who are affected by those rules before they write them.

the effort on the part of the President to implement cap-and-trade by EPA rules is another one

each branch of government would jealously protect the power and authority granted to it within the Constitution

the contraceptive, sterilization, abortifacient manufacture policy by the President of United States

I think it's important to get that consistency, if I may, you are talking about, sir, that there is a grandfathering provision.

What happens under this proposal to patient choice?

Can't you come to Congress and ask us to fix this so that you do have the authority to have a legitimate competitive bidding process rather than one that opens the door up for suicide bids?

You do write the specifications for the bid, correct, and you have the statutory authority to do that?