I suspect your staff has informed you of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency's findings and our hearings that we have had where literally every single thing we have examined has shown gross mismanagement.

On rollcall No. 107, I was detained and missed the vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' ____________________

Today I focus my remarks on one decision of particular concern with many of our fellow Members of the House...

The safety of Americans, the security of America, should never be jeopardized for any reason, but certainly not simply for the purpose of fulfilling a campaign pledge. The President recently released a plan about closing Guantanamo Bay…

I think sometimes it seems like the President would like Americans to be more concerned with the rights of terrorists than their own rights. I wonder about and think about all those MPs, all those members of the services that go down and…

I thank the majority whip for his passion and his remarks. While he talks about the battlefield, we are going to hear from somebody that has been to the battlefield. The other thing about these terrorists that are spending their time in…

Folks, there you have it. The case has been made. At this point, it is essentially irrefutable. You can't see what the upside is to bringing these people to the United States and closing the facility. Al Qaeda, ISIS, radical Islamists, are…

How much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 3 minutes remaining.

I thank my good friend from Texas and agree with him that 30 percent is way too high. One is too many, but 30 percent is way--way too high. I yield to my good friend from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).

You know that our National debt is $19 trillion right now, right? You know this?

I will tell you this, sir, I do appreciate your service.

Leadership requires making hard decisions, hard choices, and making people accountable.

To my knowledge, the American taxpayer spends about $277 million per year between the Fiscal Year 2009 and 2015 to support these programs.

We want to do our part to be good neighbors and good stewards in the world.

I sent a letter to the administration asking why we haven't pursued a safe zone in the border region of Syria and Turkey.

I don't think anybody is being held accountable and I would just beseech you that the Federal Government's $19 trillion in debt.

DHS violates the trust of the taxpayers when it doesn't know how hundreds of millions of tax dollars are spent and have virtually nothing to show for it.

The only thing you have left to pay is from incoming revenues from taxes. So your benefits are decreased by that whatever that amount is at that time. So it probably fluctuates probably somewhere between 25 and 30 percent.

More importantly, for this illustration, it is as important that we were telling the public--because the CBO projection told us that it was going to be 4.5, 4.4, but we were basing all our estimates on those numbers. We are basing our…

They want to cut something. Why do you spend money on--I don't know. They call them Obama funds. Or why do you spend money on foreign aid? If we just cut that, we don't have to pay for people to hate us. They will hate us for free. It all…

We have a tendency in Congress--quite honestly, we have a tendency as Americans--with our domestic and foreign policy, to just pretend that these things aren't happening.

Right, and the population growth for those people who will be receiving benefits.

I don't think you can completely explain the green part of sequestration. As you can see, it moves above the red line on occasion about 2017.

It is for my mother, who is already on Social Security, and it is definitely for me and for anybody who thinks he may collect Social Security, understanding that, when we say ``entitlements,'' that is not meant to be you are entitled to…

One of the most oft-repeated campaign promises from President Obama's 2008 campaign was his determination to close the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Congress, a coequal branch of government representing each citizen and reelected…