Lou Barletta

Adding 17,000 pounds to our trucks aren't going to make our bridges any safer in Pennsylvania or in Ohio or in the hills of Tennessee or on a winter road in Minnesota.

I urge the subcommittee to oppose unnecessary restrictions on the location of the new FBI headquarters.

Now there is a new proposal here to grant the pathway to citizenship to millions who have crossed the border illegally or who have overstayed a visa. I believe that this will only encourage millions more, now, to come here through our open…

We need to make sure that we are doing first things first--that we are securing our borders.

We have our immigration laws for two reasons. No. 1 is to protect American jobs, and No. 2, to protect the American people.

I disagree--I am listening here today and I guess my first disagreement is how we even define our borders.

Forty percent of the people that are in the country illegally didn't cross a border; they came here on a visa, the visa expired, and they disappeared into the system and we can't find them.

I wish to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts). {time} 1250

I wish to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), chairman of Judiciary.

I wish to yield 7 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), who is the sponsor of this bill.

I have no more speakers and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

We should not let this Government run our health care system.

Congress should require that every department utilize zero base budgeting.

We should not ask to take more hardworking taxpayers' money so that Washington could spend it.

We in Congress have failed.

This Congress can't even pass a budget.

The strong support demonstrated toward community and technical colleges by Governor Bobby Jindal and the Louisiana legislature is evidence of their commitment to improved access, success, and program quality.

Any new law or regulation from the federal or state government should be considered through the lens of improving student opportunity and success.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the funds made available by this Act…

Many scientists have argued that our nation has more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil.

In my 1 year here, I will tell you, I have seen more waste, fraud, and abuse in this Government, and it is absolutely frightening.

To look at reports where the GSA spent $136,000 on a scouting trip before the conference is more than upsetting.

I have had senior citizens tell me that they are not going back into their homes again.

When disaster strikes, America is the first country to come to the aid of other countries around the world, and I am very proud of that, I am very proud of that fact, but when you see disasters strike the people in your neighborhood and…

Mr. Shaffer, common sense is a dirty word around here.