Andy Barr

Tax increases are a lousy deficit reduction strategy.

I encourage the committee to use its tools to ensure that our military has the resources it needs to properly defend the American people.

As a new Member of the House, I strongly support the call of the American people to reduce Government spending and bring the national debt under control.

Raising taxes will only further weigh down the economy and slow job creation efforts in the private sector.

I believe we should work to find ways to budget for and pay for natural disaster aid packages.

Today I wish to honor three precious lives lost in the tornado which devastated Menifee County, Kentucky, one year ago this Saturday. Beverly Bowman was a magnet to children, according to newspaper accounts. Friends called her the backbone…

I'd like to put this week's debate about scheduled budget cuts into some much-needed context. The Federal Government spent $3.5 trillion last year. And yet, even with the $85 billion in cuts scheduled to occur over the next 7 months, the…

When I graduated from Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, just over 20 years ago, I had little notion that I would stand before you today occupying the seat which the Great Compromiser himself once held. Henry Clay was first…

I strongly support the provision of immediate federal relief to the victims of Hurricane Sandy and other disasters. We absolutely have a responsibility to provide targeted resources to help communities meet their true emergency needs…

Amendment IV: ``The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath…

The RNC is saying that Michael Steele was not at the nightclub. They're totally denying that.

He's a huge distraction for Republicans, who want to win this fall.

He's a huge distraction for Republicans who want to win this fall.

it is indeed an honor and a great personal pleasure to welcome today and invite to deliver the invocation seeking the blessing of our Lord God Almighty to these Chambers Pastor Robert W. ``Bob'' Horner III, Senior Pastor at Peachtree…

Finally, Mr. Chairman, let me mention the whole process here is rather bizarre. We see the folks on the other side saying, well, because these people went to the School of the Americas and sometime in the future, after that point, they…

The provisions that we have added back into this bill during the conference proceedings are different from those that were in the bill earlier and that were removed in the Barr amendment. They are protective of civil liberties. They grant…

yesterday, I was the lead witness presenting testimony before the House International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee, on the matter of terrorist regimes influencing the U.S. political process. I urged hearings be held and…

I would also direct my learned colleagues who oppose this very limiting and responsible and reasonable amendment that I am proposing to our Immigration and Nationality Act laws. There could be no broader definition of terrorist activity or…

Mr. Chairman, we are debating here today fundamentally important legislation. It is fundamentally important legislation because there is no more basic, more critical, more fundamental and more important duty of our Government than to…

54 years ago, in 1942, the security of liberty was not as certain as it is today. The flame of freedom was in danger of being completely snuffed out by those who sought to enslave the world. Thankfully, freedom was preserved for us by a…

in all of the debate and the rancor over the current budget problems that we are facing, some other more fundamental problems seem to be being lost. One of those I was reflecting on today and would like to bring to the attention of this…

I would challenge GAO, in the year 2015, if they think the F-15, as great a fighter as it is today, will maintain air superiority against the advances in technology that will in fact have come about for our adversaries and potential…

the War Powers Act has become a resolution without meaning, honored in its breach rather than in its compliance. It has cost us credibility at home and abroad. It is time to reform it. It is time to get back to basics, to a basic…

as I listened a few moments ago to the distinguished gentleman from Michigan, I was struck with something. That is, yes to his question that we have had in this country tremendous improvements in the water supply and our waterways over the…

In the greater scheme of things, I think there are very few, at least I would hope there are very few in this Chamber that would disagree with the proposition that in the larger scheme of things, when we are looking at food and when we are…