Mary Gay Scanlon: “Every day some of our colleagues seem to be trying to prove the legal maxim that if you don't have the law on your side…”

We all enjoy the extra hour or so of sunlight in the summer, but when people are considering this, they need to consider the extra hours of darkness in the winter.

Mr. Speaker, underneath this debate about the appropriations minibus is the difficult reality that House Republicans have abdicated their responsibilities to this Chamber, to the Congress, and to the Constitution. We are not just debating…

Mr. Speaker, nobody is questioning that the Federal Government has the duty and authority to arrest and detain and deport these so-called worst of the worst, rapists, drug dealers, people who have been convicted, but that is not what is…

I hope you will convey my thanks to the more than 10,000 employees who you oversee and who are on the front lines of critical issues that you have been discussing.