Nobody said that the national motto ``In God We Trust'' is just words. Nobody said any such thing. What I said is that this resolution is just words because no one is threatening the national motto. It's there. It's on our currency, and…

Although the American people are concerned about restoring our economy and creating jobs, today we are returning to irrelevant issues that do nothing to promote economic growth and put Americans back to work. We have seen this before. In…

I would point out that the lawsuit that the gentleman from California referred to lost at the Supreme Court, and that was a number of years ago, which adds to the point that, of course, ``In God We Trust,'' our national motto, is not under…

Reclaiming my time, the gentleman may be correct. I'm not familiar with that case. But cases making these challenges occur all the time. They lose 100 percent of the time, and there's no reason to expect that that will change. So, again…

I am concerned about threats to religious liberty in America, threats from legislatures, from the Supreme Court, from candidates, and from demagogues.

Now my questions. Madam Secretary, do you agree that we need to change to the policies which lead to the repeated transfer of detainees so that we can finally protect their due process rights and improve the efficiency of our immigration…

I thank the Chairman for yielding.

Too often, the rights of unpopular minorities are trampled upon by the majority, and when it comes to religion, everyone is unpopular somewhere.

Congress responded swiftly with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act or RFRA, legislation that I was privileged to work on when I was first elected to Congress.

That appalling hostility to religious liberty, coming as it did from a Justice who is hailed as an icon of the conservative movement, was truly chilling.

This bill seeks to undo women's constitutional rights under the guise of being about government funding for abortion. The law, unfortunately, already forbids Federal funds from paying for abortions except in the case of rape, incest, or…

The chairman's mark for the service transportation bill would be a 35-percent cut in funding. That is exactly the wrong direction to be going in.