Tom Cole

It disappoints me. It doesn't surprise me.

I urge a ``no'' vote on the previous question. Madam Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko), my good friend and fellow member of the Rules Committee, to discuss her bill and this previous…

My friends talked a great deal about human rights, and I just want to make the point that I don't believe--I surely don't believe they think that the Houthi rebels in Yemen are great defenders of human rights or that the Iranian forces who…

I just wanted to do that. Because the budget looks pretty good to me, broadly speaking.

Things are better because they had a budget, they could plan.

Let's get that deal first before we worry about the next one.

We need to use all the techniques at our disposal. Land management is certainly one of them.

I am going to give all of you a rare privilege. I am going to let you--I had the good fortune to sit where my friend, the chair, sits now

I want to go back to this issue of the joint employer...

If we are talking about wage theft the way that the other members on the panel are defining it, which is any FLSA violation or perhaps any FLSA and any state wage law violation, then I would agree that the numbers are very large.

I want to sincerely thank the chair for this hearing. It has been, I think, a very, very good hearing.

Our response must be broader and more inclusive and it must be a response that unites rather than divides the American people.

More funding for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention will not by itself solve our systemic problems.

However, I fully recognize that the use of this right comes with great responsibility.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.

I think it is important we continue to make progress.

I want to commend the gentlelady for her interest in oversight on the loan servicing program.

Madam Chair, I want to thank you, too, obviously again for the IG briefing that we had 2 weeks ago and for assembling this panel and focusing interest on this.

It seems to me what are the sorts of things we can do--because we know it is risky--that would discourage that?

I think this actually gets back to a point that Judge Arthur made. The demographics of this population have changed, and that is straining the physical capacity.

I want to again thank all of the witnesses here.

I support that view. Our Founders knew that true freedom from despotism requires ordinary citizens to have the means to defend themselves.

We put a lot more money again into these three particular countries.

If I may, Judge Arthur, in your written testimony, you highlight some of the criminal elements and organizations that participate in trafficking and smuggling

This isn't a new problem, and you mentioned the--and I agree with you, by the way, the inexcusable problems that we had in terms of sexual assaults at centers.