Migrants are giving up their life savings, mortgaging their homes and farms, and handing over their children to smugglers, because they are falsely being told that children are 'visas' to get into this country.

This past year we saw what some Democrats on this committee called a 'Fake Emergency' explode as over 977,000 people attempted to illegally enter the United States.

I am also concerned by the partisan pre-conceptions surrounding the hearing title.

I support and trust the private personal health choices of women.

My point is simply this. The state of Texas I can speak to. I can't speak to the other 49 states. We take women's health very seriously, and we should.

it is shocking that our department of health is headed by a physician, Dr. Randall Williams, and more shocking is that he is an OB/GYN. He knows better.

the responsibility for failure primarily lies with Congress, not with the boots on the ground and not with the Executive.

The Democrats' entire case against the President is built on hearsay, unverified third-party accounts, and opinion. No cop in America could righteously make any arrest with that degree of evidence, not even a misdemeanor, much less…

On rollcall No. 539, I mistakenly voted ``no'' when I intended to vote ``yes.'' The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Butterfield). The question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended. The amendment was agreed to. The Acting CHAIR…

Is there more that the United States as well as the private sector can do to prevent the internet from being an incubator for extremist content?

I believe that our Nation is on that journey.

Only by courageous interaction, by discarding extremist reaction to extremist action, by embracing humility and honest, candid communication can America heal itself.

Our oath as veterans was to our Constitution, not to a party or race or creed or color or ideology.

I appreciate your testimony describing for us the current position of D.C. finances and revenue and its ability to operate as a state and how D.C. is in better shape fiscally than some recognized existing states.

I support statehood for the District of Columbia.

I appreciate that D.C. has successfully turned the page on the days of guidance and oversight from the Financial Control Board.

If this effort was sincere by my colleagues... there would be an introduction to repeal the Twenty-Third Amendment.

Veterans should be afforded flexibility to use the benefits they righteously earned in a manner that best suits their individual needs.

I respectfully request your strong support of H.R. 1527, a Long-Term Care of Veterans Choice Act.

I respectfully request your strong support of HR 1527, the Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act.

This is a commonsense bill that allows us to provide greater care and access to needed full-time care, nursing home level care to our veterans at a lower expense to the people in our treasure.

I urge the Committee to mark up H.R. 3527 so that it can advance to the floor of the House for a vote.

In Federalist 10, Madison stated that liberty is to faction as air is to fire, an element without which it will instantly expire.

The opioid crisis is a symptom of a cultural crisis in our country. We have created--we have allowed to manifest a culture of dependency in America.

Well, medical studies concur that a lethal dosage of pure fentanyl can be as low as 250 micrograms.