It is my privilege and honor to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives and also to have listened in on the presentation over the previous hour, the Republican Women for Life, led by Congresswoman Schmidt, who has…

Does it require a warrant for an FBI agent to sit in a mosque with a tape recorder in a public setting?

I thank the gentleman from Georgia. I tend to agree with all the Republicans from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I am here on the floor to speak to this issue of what frames this rule and the continuing resolution that flows behind it, Mr. Speaker…

And just one brief question, if the Chairman would indulge.

I believe that there is jihad being preached in some of those mosques.

Tonight, I step to the floor with your acknowledgment, Judge Carter, to honor a real American hero. This American hero that we honor tonight here on the floor of the United States Congress is an American hero, Corporal John Michael Peck…

I have come to the floor to raise some issues here, to address you and hopefully be able to penetrate with some rationale and logic that I think is essential that the American people benefit from, and that is this, that, for some time now…

We need an immigration time-out. The people calling for more immigration do not care one iota about the working person in this country.

It is again a privilege to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives. And it's a privilege to sit here in this Chamber and listen to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) talk about these critical…

We in Congress have an obligation to look after the well-being of American workers.

Anyone who knows me knows I am a strong proponent of legal immigration. I am equally a strong opponent of illegal immigration.

We certainly don't want to be here 6 years from now and, again, asking why there are fewer and fewer jobs for American workers.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is an honor and a privilege to address you here on the floor of the House. And I would say after listening to the presentation of my colleague from Illinois, it's been a little while since I've heard that; and…

One point that I wanted to make about what's going on with the strategy on ObamaCare is that I've spoken significantly about how this House has voted to repeal it, this House has voted to shut off the funding to it at every single…

I want to express my disappointment in the gentlemen who spoke before me. I usually come here to pick up my material for rebuttal. And as I listened to you talk about your affection for the Peace Corps, I didn't come up with a single thing…

He asked for equal opportunity. He didn't ask for special privileges.

Somewhere between 340,000 and 750,000 babies are born in this country to parents who are illegal.

I believe that local law enforcement, working in cooperation with Federal law enforcement officers, will do a fine job.

Illegal immigration is intolerable to a free society. It violates the rule of law.

My Amendment No. 267 says this in pertinent part: 'No funds made available by this act may be used to carry out the provisions of ObamaCare.' So this does is, for the appropriations that go on outside of the scope of this continuing…

I want to point out to the body also, Mr. Chairman, that I have lived under the Davis-Bacon wage scale for years. I've met payroll for 28rac{1}{2} years--over 1,400 consecutive weeks. I've worked for a wage underneath Davis-Bacon wage…

America will never know, Mr. Chairman, how much work went into crafting this amendment to get this fix that does a little bit to take us down the road. And, boy, it is important to me to see $100 million cut out of the resources that would…

Republicans seem to be pretending that emergency room care is free. Every insured American is paying an extra 1,100 bucks this year--$1,400 in Oregon--for those who are uninsured. We want to begin to address that problem, get them in…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment that is before the House this evening is an amendment that shuts off the funding within this continuing resolution to what we know as the Davis-Bacon Act. The Davis-Bacon Act is an old and archaic act that was…

This amendment No. 266, someone put the moniker on it 'The Silver Bullet Amendment.' And as much as we have all worked here to try to find the right way to shut off all of the funding to freeze in place the implementation and enforcement…