H.R. 1493 would needlessly slow down an agency action and open the door widely to almost anyone who wants to impede agency action.

I cannot and will not speak to any funding or motivations behind the report, but what I do know is that there has been a really concerted ideological campaign.

H.R. 1493 is simply unnecessary as its proponents offer no evidence of the problem that it purports to address.

But there are some problems here. Our research on this so-called sunshine in regulatory decrees and settlements has a simple goal, and that is to discourage the use of settlement agreements and consent decrees. I think that is very, very…

I urge my colleagues to oppose it.

I am disappointed at the subject matter of this hearing. I am saddened to think of all the things that we need to be doing.

Taking just the Clean Air Act as an example, Congress expected Americans to be safeguarded against hazardous air pollution.

The bill addresses a nonexistent problem. There is no evidence of collusion between agencies and private entities.

Well, that is some progress, and I thank you, Doctor, for your responses.

What I see us doing here this morning is undermining the basic reproductive rights of women by prohibiting any abortion after 20 weeks.

It has been said by one of our esteemed Members of this Judiciary Committee that when Members of Congress attempt to play doctor, it is bad medicine for women, and that is what brings us here today.

the global war on terror implies war without end, a concept that, as you can guess, I vigorously oppose.

our colleague, the Ranking Member, Adam Smith, will be offering again his amendment to prohibit indefinite detention for anyone captured in the United States.

I appreciate the fact that the ball is now in our court here in the House.

We want a path. And at the same time we need to combat the people that would illegally come in, the drug smugglers, the weapons traffickers, and all.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, . . . No Nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

We're not going to be allowed to just drop bombs on people in that country without their permission.

This is an important hearing, and we know that everybody's currently focused on the Senate Judiciary's markup of S.

At the Judiciary Committee's first hearing in this Congress, we discussed opportunities for legal immigration as well as enforcement of the law against undocumented immigrants.

Today is Peace Officers Memorial Day, and I would like to begin by honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in serving our Nation.

I am troubled by the notion that our Government would pursue such a broad array of media phone records over such a long period of time.

I note that some of our Members have been outspoken in opposition to the Free Flow of Information Act in the past and have commented publicly about their outrage over the Associated Press subpoenas.

I have a one-sentence bill, H.R. 900, that repeals the sequester, and many of my colleagues have already begun talking about it and joining with me on it today. These cuts are currently diminishing our Nation's education quality, our…

I wanted to begin our discussion with H.R. 1549, which will be up tomorrow, Helping Sick Americans Now Act. I am not supporting this bill because the bill's proposals are counterintuitive to the anticipated outcome of the Prevention and…

I continue to have serious reservations about amending the Constitution in order to aid victims of crime.