Brian Fitzpatrick

And specific to the border. CBP, the Coast Guard and Border Patrol all fall under DHS. And DHS is not being adequately funded. So, having a debate over border security, while we're defunding border security simultaneously.

I just don't see any logic whatsoever so shutting the government down. It is a dangerous thing.

We need to get the government reopened and that's the most important thing.

There's two questions there. Number one, can he legally? The second is, should he? The can is a question of constitutional law in Article 2 of the Constitution and Title 50 of the U.S. Code. That's the question of constitutional lawyers…

I sure hope so, Anderson, because the stakes are awfully high and I lived through a government shutdown as an FBI agent back in 2013, and saw how devastating and detrimental it is, you know, having -- as a supervisor, having to make…

This famine was perpetrated by Joseph Stalin in an attempt to quash the nation's independence movement and fierce opposition to collectivization.

I am proud to speak today in strong support for H. Res. 931, the resolution recognizing the 85th anniversary of the Ukraine famine and genocide.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, line 7, insert before the period the following: ``or criteria established or endorsed by the State…

When life hangs in the balance, the Federal Government must not stand in the way of this process. We have to get this done once and for all. Mr. Speaker, today, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, appeal to the better angels…

We need these screening devices in all 450-plus airports across this country. It is got to be a priority.

I can't think of a higher priority with all the tens of billions of dollars we spent in aviation security, this is the most important thing we can do.

Over 4 weeks have passed since our Nation suffered an unspeakable tragedy in Parkland, Florida, where we lost 17 souls that we cannot get back. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the names of these young, brave souls who will move this…

The administrative agencies under the executive branch obviously executing their constitutional authority to promulgate rules by giving the House of Representatives and Congress oversight over that.

Thank you for being the voice of small business, which creates 7 out of every 10 new jobs in this country.

Well over 80 percent of people who are currently inmates will be released at some point, and we need to think about that.

I have met a ton of people in our community here who want to work who don't have a way to get to work.

How many start college and then don't finish? Frankly, I see a lot of those students.

I just want to throw two ideas to the panel for discussion.

I don't think there is anything we can address immediately that would be more important than this.

I have to remind everybody that marijuana is still illegal...

Unfortunately, the way to--as Mr. Eiding was saying, the way to really help individuals stay clean...

I think the cure to that, besides helping people, is get more people to work, because I think people want to work.

I applaud the House of Representatives for passing, I think, last year, reauthorization of the Perkins Act.

Funding, funding to your colleagues. Don't let them push this aside, you know.

Those businesses employ almost 50 percent of our workers.