``We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and…

Thank you. Friends, colleagues, countrymen, and especially the people of Ohio's Eighth Congressional District, thank you for sending me here. Let us today welcome all of the new Members and all of their families to what we all know to be a…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Let me add my words of congratulations to our good friend from Michigan, John Dingell, who has been a mentor to Members on both sides of the aisle and has carried more institutional history than anyone…

The intent of Division N, Section 101 is to establish separate limits for funds raised into separate, segregated accounts established by national political party committees for certain specified purposes. All of these funds are ``hard…

A comprehensive approach is long overdue.

This issue of immigration reform has been around far too long.

By issuing executive action on immigration President Obama is sabotaging any chance of getting other reforms he wants.

He should not deal with the immigration problem by executive order without Congress.

the president will burn himself if he goes down that path.

I thank my colleague for yielding. I also want to thank the whole House for its work to address the American peoples' concerns about jobs and our economy. All told, we have sent the Senate now more than 40 jobs bills, almost all of them in…

Since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat, once again, on signing up people for food stamps.

Speaker Boehner has strongly voiced his objection to this kind of abuse.

Let me take this opportunity to recognize a special guest who is in our Nation's Capital today. Dr. Jessica Bienstock is the residency program director for the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School…

Good morning. Good morning, and let me just say welcome back to all of you. It has been a long year since you were here last, but over the course of the year I think you all know we lost former Speaker Tom Foley. We lost our good friend…

that's not the way our system of government was designed to work

House Republicans answering President Obama's challenge to either get things done or if he tries to do it for him, sue him for trying.

when is he going to take responsibility for something?

I will have the Members know that the gentleman from Iowa has announced that this will be his last term in Congress. On behalf of the House, I want to thank Mr. Latham for his 20 years of service to the House, thank him for all those years…

And my colleagues, today we will take up the NSA reform bill. I rise today to thank Chairman Rogers, Chairman Goodlatte, Mr. Conyers, and all, in a bipartisan way, who have come to address this very critical reform at a time when America…

And my colleagues, I believe the whole House and the American people deserve to know how I came to the decision that brings us here today. On September 11, 2012, a terrorist attack on our consulate in Libya left four of our countrymen…

Democrats have opted for a government takeover of health care.

My colleagues, I know that the House shares my deep concern over the backlog of benefit claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs. It is nothing short of a black eye for our government. This country has made promises that it is our duty…

There should be another round of BRAC. We have bases that are unnecessary. They need to go.

And my colleagues, I know the whole House is paying close attention to the crisis in Ukraine. What is going on there is more than a cause for concern. It is a cause for action. America has a responsibility to stand up for freedom around…

Even John Boehner when he issued a statement today, critical statement of the president saying in effect that the U.S. has been too weak to this point. He talked about maximizing economic and political punishment at this point.