The Social Security Administration is located in the 7th Congressional District of Maryland.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I strongly oppose this bill, which would repeal the District of Columbia's Local Budget Autonomy Act and prohibit D.C. from passing such laws in the future. I do not believe there is a…

We cannot expect Federal agencies to modernize, replace, and strengthen their information systems against determined, sophisticated cyber attackers without giving them the resources and tools they need to do so.

The ticking time bomb here is that Republicans keep slashing agency budgets year after year, and pretending that these actions have no negative repercussions.

I want to make sure that we are putting responsibility where responsibility belongs.

There have been few times in my 20 years on this committee that I have felt so strongly about an individual.

The employees who came forward deserve to have their allegations thoroughly and fairly investigated.

Certainly, we would not want you to go into something that is going to not yield a sufficient profit.

And I have always been concerned about making sure that we save as much money as possible.

I just think that we have got to get this done.

No system, unfortunately, is perfect.

I think it is very important that we put faces.

ICE also explained that discretionary releases typically occur with individuals associated with less-serious offenses.

We need to eliminate any misperception that immigrants as a group are more likely to be criminals or commit acts of violence.

We have got to try to address the issues that come out of this.

These were not accidental lapses of off-the-cuff remarks. They are genuine statements from the leading Republican candidate for President of the United States of America in 2016.

The crimes that were committed against them were brutal and barbaric, and their lives were stolen away from them all too soon.

Studies have widely shown that the recidivism rate for immigrant criminals is lower than for the general population.

If we remain silent, if we remain silent in the face of these actions, hate will become our new normal.

We need to be striving for it every day.

We must come together to reject racist rhetoric and work to make our community safer in a comprehensive and constructive way.

I will not sit by silently as some have tried to plunge our nation into a hateful division where we turn against each other.

Census data from 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 found that incarceration rates for native-born, essentially U.S. citizens, were 2 to 5 times higher than that of immigrants.

I have tremendous respect for our U.S. attorneys.

What I absolutely do not support, however, is the hateful rhetoric we hear and have heard coming from some my members of the Republican Party who disparage all immigrants with false condemnation.