Mr. Speaker, I rise to comment on the budget that was passed yesterday out of this House by the Republicans. I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of our Vice President. Our Vice President is often heard to say that people…

I think we can all agree that the cost of doing nothing is too much to bear.

That is why I supported and will continue to support comprehensive immigration reform that includes a tough but fair path to citizenship.

Representative Gerry Connolly from Virginia and I have called for an ethics complaint against J. Russell George for his handling of other matters because of his lack of non-partisanship.

Mr. Speaker, I rise with some relief to note that yesterday, we did come together to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. A number of us came together and ignored the extremist shutdown crowd and did the responsible thing and…

My own view is that the ACA is the law and we need to try to smooth out the rough parts on it and make it work for Americans, and to amend it where it needs to be amended and make it better.

Mr. Meadows and I agree on a great many things here in the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of them is that we want transparency and accountability in the Government.

I am disappointed that the agency made this kind of mistake at such a critical time.

I'm sick and tired of what may fairly be called hypocritical actions by some of my colleagues across the aisle.

it is time for Speaker Boehner to do the same, bring up a clean DHS funding bill, and let's act like grownups around here.

Speaker Boehner really has to put an end to this showdown and agree to bring up the clean DHS funding bill to the floor as soon as it passes the Senate.