I find it ironic to hear the Ranking Member of the full Committee's opening statement on this.

When this Congress goes to such great lengths to specifically protect women and minorities, and the bill that is named after Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony...

the insouciance of some of the people on the other side of this issue who are not enthusiastic about the PRENDA bill must derive from the fact that they think these are transitory phenomena

I listen to this discussion and the disproportionate number of female babies that are aborted...

I oppose those policies.

the time, I believe, to legislate against this is now

I am very sensitive to issues of coercion because I am an eyewitness to coercion in China

It's an honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. And I want to say that I appreciate the presentation that came from just some of the great team of doctors that we have here…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate that recognition, and I appreciate the input that has come from the gentlelady from North Carolina. I came down here to change the subject, but I wanted to speak about regulation, and I'll just wrap up…

I thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for yielding, and I especially thank her for leading in this Special Order hour here tonight to discuss the burden of regulation on business in this country, primarily the burden on small…

This addresses a subject matter that we discussed here in this hearing with regard to the effect of sanctuary cities.

Congress has never acted on racial profiling.

Secure Communities is exactly in the same boat.

I certainly support Congressman Graves's bill that sets some priorities.

That brought about water in the Missouri River bottom that, by the time you get to Sioux City, it is--they had--they saw flooding in Sioux City.

Just to explore that a little further and that would be, looking at the corporate tax structure, there's corporate income tax, and then there are all of the wages that are paid out in payroll taxes to the employees. And of course one of…

And I appreciate the opportunity to be your partner in this. And I would say to the folks on either side of the argument that disagree, they're both wrong, whether they're from the left or from the right. And the bottom line is this: the…

The folks that are buying food in McDonald's are going to pay the tax if we try to get it from McDonald's. So we know corporations don't pay taxes; they are aggregators of taxes that are paid by individuals, by consumers on the last stop…

If the gentleman would yield, I'd slip another anecdote into this that comes from just last weekend. I was over in eastern Iowa doing an event, and I happened to get reacquainted with a young gentleman by the name of Michael Dicks. Now, he…

History is replete with the Founding Fathers, literary giants of the time, philosophers of the time, who looked at the Greek democracy and they were appalled at what it had produced. They produced for us a republic instead. But many of…

It is always my privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives. And I find it a bit ironic that I'm watching the Representatives from Florida, New York and Texas speak to the Speaker pro tem…

I believe that happens from China as probably the lead globally to do that.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's always my privilege and an honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor. As is often the case, I come here and hear the end of the debate that has gone on before me and feel compelled to address it…

It's my honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor. And before I go into my presentation, I want to go into the subject matter the gentleman from Texas has led this previous Special Order on, just as a means of discussing a…

I have yet to hear anybody put all those assets together and make the ask how many prison beds, how many prosecutors, how many judges--how do we actually get 100 percent enforcement on that border.