I would like to thank my colleagues on both sides. There are very few times when you have a vote here that is unanimous, and it is for a simple reason. It is that everyone here understands and appreciates what these men and women in our…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my bill, H.R. 33, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act. This is a good, truly bipartisan bill that protects our first responders, our volunteer…

I don't think it is fair, especially around the holidays, to put illegal immigrants ahead of the American worker.

Nearly 20 million Americans woke up this morning either unemployed or underemployed.

I support the McKeon Amendment to the Continuing Resolution. As a nation, we have faced many threats to our national security over the 238 years of our existence. But the danger presented by the Islamic State may be unique in its…

Enforcing our immigration laws is No. 1.

President Obama has told the American people and potential terrorists that he plans to grant some form of administrative amnesty to potentially millions of those currently in the country unlawfully.

Why are we not taking up the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Report, so that we don't have another attack again?

We know that terrorist networks have been using our porous Southern Border and a broken immigration system to enter the United States.

I have introduced a bill that would stop the Federal Government from sending unaccompanied minors around the company into our schools, into our neighborhoods without any knowledge at all of what is happening.

We can save $3 billion over the next 10 years. That is a goal worth achieving.

My bill would empower Governors and local elected officials to control whether or not the Federal Government can place into their communities unaccompanied alien minors who entered the country unlawfully.

Any Member of Congress that starts talking about a pathway to amnesty--and that is what it is--lays out the welcome mat for people around the world that want to come into the United States illegally while our borders are not secured.

It is irresponsible to talk about what we will do before we can stop the flow into the country.

Why weren't we prepared, if we expected 65,000?

If it is not our lack of enforcing immigration laws, why don't they stop somewhere in Mexico?

I do believe that DACA and our failure of enforcing our immigration laws are the cause of this.

Why come all the way to the United States? Why put these children a thousand miles and risk their lives?

We are either going to be a country that respects our rule of law, or we are not.

When we talk about pathway to citizenship, I believe it is not only about the 11 million that are here. I am worried about the 11 million more that will come because of that.

When I saw our population grow by 50 percent but our tax revenue stay the same, realizing we had an illegal immigration problem, the quality of services suffered.

If we don't do the due diligence to make sure that we are not allowing people into this country that will harm Americans, which I believe is our first priority of Government, is to protect the American people, then we are not doing our job.

Terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country.

We should not be playing politics with the security of the American people.

An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.