the Constitution doesn't say so. You can make those references to those--those cases and I won't take issue with that.

Reclaiming my time, again, I thank the gentleman from Texas. I came here to talk about a couple of other subject matters, Mr. Speaker. The one that's on the front of my mind that I want to make sure I address is the Missouri River flooding…

Reclaiming my time, and I thank the gentleman from Texas for making those points. We the people have vested our authority in our government, and that's how that transfer takes place. But I remember clearly the bailiff saying, ``The State…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will then just conclude this discussion on the river and not address any other subject matter. We have not, as a Congress, looked at this Missouri River issue. It's a natural disaster that has been, to some…

I would put that up against the losses that we have had on the southern border--25,064 in arrests for homicide generally means at least one grave.

I will just make this point--that it looks to me that the Administration is going down the path of shutting down all state legislation on immigration...

If the attorney general is successful in the litigation that he has initiated on these states that have passed immigration laws...

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his leadership on this issue, and I'm privileged to be on the floor with a lot of pro-life activists. I rise in support of the Protect Life Act, and I think we should talk about what is really…

That border is not shut down, I can promise you that.

If we had the ability to actually leverage full enforcement at the border, then it would be actually a deterrent effect.

Illegal aliens approach us, volunteering, begging us to deport them from the United States.

We know we are not interdicting half of those that come across.

If you are committing a felony, we likely don't have the resources to prosecute you.

I am opposed to it, that we don't support administrative amnesty.

we bring into this country, on average, legally, over a million people a year--by far the most generous nation on Earth.

we are often looking at immigration policy piecemeal, and how does it fit in to the whole?

I believe the momentum to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment would come directly out of the passage of the fair tax.

I have been for, the national sales tax, for a long time because everybody becomes a taxpayer.

I have a little granddaughter that just turned a year old the other day and she was born into this world with $44,000 worth of debt.

It doesn't make me a hypocrite. It makes me a businessman, and the United States of America prints the money, sets the policy for the country, and we will be in perpetual debt, and we will be Greece if we don't get this under control.

I think the point that was made that is most significant with regard to the witness' testimony was that Governor Thornburgh doesn't believe that many States would want to repeal our balanced budget amendment requirement.

We would have concerns, Congressman, on both levels.

It strikes me that this has nothing to do with an administration of rights.

I would also have the Congress codify no proliferation.

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