Victoria Spartz

Well, I can tell you one thing, democracy is never easy. This process is hard. They're meant to be hard. But I would never take changes for anything else.

Legislative process should never be easy. Laws should never be easy.

I think there are a lot of good things happening as part of this job because we do not want to be a dictatorship.

I think it's important for us to have this conversation because I think we do have a responsibility to elect the Speaker, but we have to talk to each other.

My district in central Indiana represents a cross-section of our Nation, cities, suburbs, and rural farmland, none of which have proven themselves immune to the devastating possibility of opioid addiction. Americans know that we must use…

Setting prices benefits government-controlled monopolies and is destroying the little guy.

We are destroying small enterprise. We are destroying manufacturing. We are destroying mining.

If we continue on this path, now we are crying, that we are going to be dependent on China and Russia.

Do you believe recent Inspector General FISA report citing widespread and material noncompliance by the FBI with proper due process for surveillance of U.S. citizens is a violation of the Fourth Amendment?

I am disturbed, very disturbed by the use of the Department of Justice as a political tool in its power as a police State to suppress local public discourse.

In closing, Mr. Speaker, the TEACH grant program fails too many of our teachers, and it needs to be fixed. It is important that our Federal Government honors its promises. The Consider Teachers Act creates flexibility and streamlines…

It seems like it should be responsibility of constituency of that State to elect good government.

I also agree that fees are really a form of regressive taxation.

Isn't it like if you look at that, that is a powerful control and centralization of power of the Federal Government which I understand government can control price, and we can do very good, but it's going to be you know fatal for…

I have a major concern with House Bill 3. And I'll tell you the major concern I have and in particular dealing with we're given enormous power to HHS Secretary to have a very, you know, very powerful tax weapons to have the requirements to…

I share the frustration of a lot of Members of this Committee. I would probably argue that price and wage controls after World War II, that's what got us in trouble with healthcare.

I appreciate this discussion. Actually, as someone who worked on major healthcare reform in the State of Indiana...

I truly believe would have a lot of work to improve our legal immigration system...

I think it is a good discussion to have, but I would suggest to my colleagues from the other side, if they do believe this issue is still valid and necessary, to actually restart this process from the beginning, because we are wasting our…

The American republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can't buy the public with the public's money.

Today, I rise in opposition to H.R. 842. Like many other bills in this Congress, the majority has rushed this bill to the floor with no deliberation in committee. To be clear, I have never opposed union rights to organize. In fact, I have…

It is important discussion what we have, but I also wanted to make sure that we also have a freedom of people to exercise their First amendment rights and the rights of protest, of peaceful protest.

We need to have a better legal immigration system.

I think it is interesting because I have a little bit different explanation and definition of forced arbitration.

As someone who grew up in a communist country where people were punished for expressing their opinions, I have an enormous appreciation for our First Amendment rights. This is a core principle our Nation was founded on. I might not like…