I think you have set the pace for how it ought to be done.

Race, ethnicity, gender have not place in terms of policing. We treat everybody equally...

The United States Copyright Office plays a critical role in promoting and protecting our Nation's copyright system.

The rise of the Islamic State is not an excuse for domestic law enforcement to stigmatize American Muslims.

Inexplicably, the bankruptcy code excludes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for the purpose of defining who may be a debtor under Chapter 9.

I am deeply concerned about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, ISIL.

I want to commend the testimony we have heard here today from these gentlemen and it is, to me, very important that I compliment Sheriff Stanek...

So my only point to you is, you are not going to deport 11 million people. This is a political case.

You see the parameters were dealing in. We are dealing in political parameters on what should be an issue about how it is we deal with an immigration system.

I want to find a solution to the problem, not keeping having hearings here where the four distinguished jurists who all know a lot about the law are not going to decide the case.

religious freedom, of course, was one of the core principles upon which our Nation was founded.

This hearing today provides an important opportunity to consider the impact of recent Supreme Court cases involving abusive patent litigation.

The gentleman from Michigan, Congressman Conyers.

La Raza has not received a single penny from these settlements, and it did not proactively seek to be designated as a recipient of these funds.

I believe it would be unwise for Congress to push additional fee-shifting legislation as the Federal courts assess the ramifications of these Supreme Court decisions.

It has become increasingly apparent that the procedures in Federal law governing civil asset forfeiture are inadequate from the perspective of fundamental fairness.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Beginning on page 13, line 18, strike section 5 (and redesignate provisions accordingly). The Acting CHAIR…

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson).

I would like to continue our discussion on this side. Another problem with this bill, my colleagues, is that it will waste millions of taxpayer dollars by forcing agencies to redirect their scarce resources to meet the bill's burdensome…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 260, noes 163, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 68] AYES--260…

I inadvertently did not vote during Roll Call #64 on passage of H.R. 50, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015. Had I voted, I would have voted ``nay.'' personal explanation

E-Verify is an important tool. But I have also said, and the witnesses appearing before us have agreed, that E-Verify cannot be made mandatory for all employers without comprehensive reforms to our Nation's broken immigration system.

In fact, I am not aware of a single victim who supports this bill.

H.R. 526, the 'Further Asbestos Claim Transparency Act,' commonly referred to as the 'FACT Act,' gives asbestos defendants new weapons with which to harm asbestos victims.

Bipartisan reform bills in the House and Senate received no action at all.