As a district attorney before I was here, I was very concerned on gender violence issues, particularly sexual assault, domestic violence.

Mr. Speaker, this beautiful child is Charlie. Charlie is an infant from Westport, Massachusetts. Charlie's dad has a green card and his mom is an American citizen. Charlie's mom wrote me to share their family's Affordable Care Act story…

The vast majority, up to 80 percent of Russia's air strikes in Syria have not been on ISIS targets.

The reality is that that would be strategically foolhardy for the United States, in my opinion, to go down that pathway.

If we are going to be smart about terrorism and specifically the rising role of ISIL, then we must first come to terms with the reality that their model of terrorism is built on a foundation of radicalization.

The situation we have watched unfold in Syria the last 6 years has been wrought with complexities and, the chairman and I agree, with chaos and atrocities under the Assad government.

I have heard the administration reference the Boston Marathon bombings as an example of a domestic attack that would have been prevented by the President's Executive Order.

Are you satisfied with that chain of command, then, that took place during that period?

I just wanted to point out that with the help of the committee here we passed in the House just this week a bill that will take the GAO study about looking at the uniqueness of the design of every airport into consideration with our safety…

I think investing in better equipment, investing in the human resources, all of that will do great things for our economy.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in strong support of my legislation H.R. 665, the Airport Perimeter and Access Control Security Act. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be joined by my colleague from New York…