Tom Marino

We must also continue to protect the children of parents who are suffering from substance abuse.

I have seen firsthand how substance abuse directly affects children.

Over 400,000 American children are in foster care.

It is abundantly clear that our Nation is facing a substance abuse epidemic.

I appreciate it, and I yield back.

The 'Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016' is timely, bold legislation directed straight at this problem.

This leads us down the dangerous slope James Madison warned against in Federalist 47--'the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands,' that 'may justly be pronounced the very definition of…

The genius of the Constitution was that, by separating the legislative, executive, and judicial powers into three distinct branches, the ambitions of each branch would check and balance the ambitions of the others.

I want to especially thank my colleague from Texas, Mr. Ratcliffe, for his leadership on this issue.

As I said in March, while the Chevron doctrine may not be as glamorous or headline-worthy as other issues before Congress, its effect on the everyday lives of Americans cannot be understated.

I just want to echo what my good friend from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline) has stated. As a former prosecutor, and Mr. Katko, who was a former prosecutor, and my good friend from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline), who was a mayor and had…

I have the utmost confidence and faith in the frontline prosecutors.

And there are hundreds, if not thousands, of these violations every year. Congress is not going to be able to legislate for each one of them.

I don't dispute that with you. But I believe that's Congress' responsibility.

I still have an issue with an agency--and, thinking as a prosecutor, as we do, that discretion or that authority is very powerful and good in 99.9 percent of the cases.

And so, to your question, Mr. Chairman, we would deprive prosecutors and civil enforcement attorneys of their ability to address the generalized harm that occurs in these cases.

But it also misses a broader point, which is Congress has also has said that restitution to victims takes priority over all penalties in the criminal system.

So Congress has already determined that criminal penalties go to the Crime Victims Fund, civil penalties go to the civil Judgment Fund.

I do want to make clear that we kept the bill as narrow or simple as possible because we wanted to hear what you had to say as far as, perhaps, expanding on issues.

It is time for Congress to take action to end this abuse.

Elected, accountable Members of Congress should decide how Federal funds are spent.

I feel the central issue is the harm that these provisions do to Congress as an institution.

A Judiciary Committee investigation has revealed that DOJ is requiring settling parties to donate money to third-party groups.

What worries me most is that North Korea will sell fissile material or a nuclear weapon.

This deal puts the U.S. Government's stamp of approval on the idea that trade agreements don't control currency manipulation.