The 1.75 trillion figure is a gaudy number that was sure to catch the ear of the media and the general public.

Enforcement only will not diminish the demand for willing workers, but merely push the undocumented further into the shadows.

Enforcement without reform will promote a race to the bottom that can only hurt the American worker in the end.

It's easy to see why the anti-regulatory critics have seized on the Crain and Crain Report and its findings.

But let's face it. Out of the first hearing on this subject and even this one, would it be unfair for impartial witnesses to come to the conclusion that a number of us here on the Committee have that E-Verify just isn't right now ready for…

Enforcement, yes, but that we have got to also talk about the real solutions of reform.

I reluctantly rise in nonsupport of this provision to extend expiring provisions of the Patriot Act because of section 215 of the Patriot Act, which I'd like to call to your attention. This is the act that allows a secret FISA court to…

Whether to become pregnant, whether to continue a pregnancy, or whether to terminate it has long been a right protected by the Constitution.

I thank you very much. My congratulations. I could observe that the view isn't quite as good from this end as it used to be when we were on the other side, but I'll get use to it again.

So you think this is an appropriate title of a bill then, No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act, because women in service may be able or might be able to get an abortion?

It seems that many Republicans believe in freedom, provided no one uses that freedom in a way they find objectionable.

This legislation represents an entirely new front in the war against women and their families.

The power to tax is the power to destroy and here the taxing power is being used quite deliberately to destroy the right of every American to make private health care decisions free from government interference.

Did he ask to testify?

What he has got against the Planned Parenthood people I have yet to discover.

It is not like this hasn't been worked on before. So I offer that proposal for your examination and, hopefully, action.

Why don't we get the Smith proposal and my proposal and meet with Eric Holder and the deputy assistant attorney general and come up with a bill and let's just move it along.

I am worried about privacy rights. And data retention creates, as Bobby Scott has said, it creates some big problems, including identity theft.

I think we have a constitutional problem on our hands.

I join in welcoming our former colleague, Mr. McIntosh, back here. It is very important.

The REINS Act may not be tailored to the problems that it is supposed to address.

the individual, whoever is objecting to the rule, can sue away. Who pays for that?

Why don't we have a hearing on the bill first?

It sounds like a backdoor way of legislating again, when they are charged with actually just making the rules to implement a bill already signed into law.

Why isn't somebody from the Administration here?