So you think that your liberty, along with your husband, in consultation with your doctor to do what was best for your family would have been precluded by this bill?

But the many Americans who see the world very differently, including millions of women who value their personal autonomy, can be forgiven if this looks like just another battle in the Republican war on women.

James Madison's words ring very, very true, and it is our job to try to make sure that our civil liberties survive intact.

If someone is under the operational control of a belligerent power, he may be an unlawful enemy combatant.

This seems to say that border enforcement spending all that money simply got us a lot more net illegal immigration.

Prior to IRCA, we had a largely unenforced border.

I think it also applies to noncitizens in the United States, since the Constitution makes no distinction with respect to the constitutional rights in the Bill of Rights on people in the United States, whether they be citizens or not.

I also would like to thank Sean Penn for his advocacy on behalf of Mr. Ostreicher, which is helping bringing international attention to this issue in a way that we couldn't otherwise.

I want to begin by thanking you and Ranking Member Bass for holding this hearing and for giving me the opportunity to participate although I am not a member of the committee.

the Committee has engaged in a relentless, unfounded, grossly unfair attack on the leadership and integrity of Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez

this inconsistency on the part of my Republican colleagues should not distract us from legitimate questions worthy of congressional oversight

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this bill would raise the debt ceiling, but only insofar as necessary and only for the purpose of paying our debts to China and to Social Security. Not raising the debt ceiling beyond what…