I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, there is hypocrisy here, and there is also great faith in ignorance on the part of the public. We have in this defense budget, it's $8.3 billion above what was agreed to in the Budget…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment asserts that it intends to protect the right of habeas corpus, which is to say the right to get into court. But the problem is not habeas. It's not the right to get into court. That is granted by the…

If this bill had been law when you had to face your ordeal, your doctor would have had to risk jail and a lawsuit to provide you with the medical services that you required.

It is wrong to impose a choice on us when legislation affects a specific district.

The idea that you cannot have a conversation with your doctor who knows you... suddenly becomes criminal, to me, is just beyond belief.

Are you aware of the research published in the Journal of the American Association and the conclusions of the Royal Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists among others?

Then you are saying that those are minority views, and they are clearly wrong.

Madam Speaker, this is a partisan Republican bill that not only rejects the bipartisan reforms to VAWA that were passed in the Senate but that would roll back protections for immigrant women that exist in current law. For example, with…

the exclusion of Delegate Norton, who is relegated to sitting in the audience today--and I want to welcome her and apologize for the rudeness my Republican colleagues are showing a colleague by refusing her request to be heard--is yet…

the exercise of political power doesn't alter scientific fact.

The bill is facially unconstitutional.