I thank you, Mr. Fortenberry, a father of five. And I'm a mother of five, and so I thank you. Mr. Speaker, I will give just a few remarks on Priests for Life and on their 20th anniversary. Tonight is a very important night because, as we…

I now yield to Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey, the leading voice for the pro-life cause and for the unborn across the United States.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. If there's anything that we have learned, Mr. Speaker, over the last several years as we've debated the President's health care plan, it is that it's been a mirage, and it has been built on a…

As a Representative of the great State of Minnesota, I stand here in support of my colleague Representative Erik Paulsen's bill to eliminate and repeal the medical device tax on the new ObamaCare legislation. Our State of Minnesota is home…

During the evening of Wednesday, 30 May 2012, I missed House votes due to an illness in my family. If I had been present, here is how I would have voted: H.R. 5651--Food and Drug Administration Reform Act of 2012, as amended, ``yea.'' H.R…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to have the Record reflect very clearly that if Representative McCollum gets her way, she will kill building the bridge over the St. Croix River. As we all know, and as our office has been told, this is one…

Throughout this debate over guaranteeing insane, never before seen in the history of this country levels of spending, President Obama has coolly stood on the sidelines, his armed crossed, very simply castigating Republicans for not giving…

When rollcall vote 480 was called, I registered my vote as ``aye'' and then proceeded to an Intelligence briefing. When I returned to the floor, it was my intention to vote ``no'' on the next amendment and I registered my vote as such…

I thank the gentleman from Iowa for yielding. This is a very important issue and a very important vote that we have just taken here in the House Chamber. It is dealing with the Patriot Act. We have had calls, we have had requests on our…

I thank the gentleman from Texas, who's doing a wonderful job this morning managing this bill, Pete Sessions. Mr. Speaker, all of our Nation's great liberties depend on our national security. I think that's something that we can all agree…

Thank you to the gentleman from Iowa for offering this important amendment. The liberal talking point in the debate thus far has gone something like this: We can't defund ObamaCare today because we have to focus on job creation. Now, that…

Make no mistake about it--the effort on the part of Steve King is to defund ObamaCare. This Chamber already passed a bill to repeal ObamaCare, which the American people have asked. This is now an effort to defund ObamaCare. Because as we…