The limited legislation that this Committee has considered would make our immigration system even less efficient, less humane, and less able to meet the needs of American families and businesses.

Defunding DHS will not advance my Republican colleagues' stated goal of nullifying these Executive orders.

But I also understand the importance of funding the Department of Homeland Security and the need to keep our Nation safe.

Instead of doing that work, we are holding hearing after hearing to vilify the President for taking important and common-sense steps to prioritize the deportation of felons before families.

We should be working day and night to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded and fully operational.

The title of today's hearing demonstrates a glaring disrespect for the Office of the Presidency and for this institution's responsibility to conduct oversight that is rooted in fact, rather than political presumption.

A particularly troubling implication of the court's broad and unsupported interpretation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is that for-profit commercial entities can now seek exemptions from other generally applicable laws…

Unfortunately, in my view, the Supreme Court subverted congressional intent and undermined the act's purpose in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.

And notwithstanding the assurances of the court's Hobby Lobby majority, it is entirely possible that a business claiming a sincerely held religious belief, for example, in White supremacy, could justify exemptions from Federal civil rights…

I am particularly concerned that the majority has unfairly singled out the National Council of La Raza...

Each year, the Department of Veterans Affairs designates a week in February as the National Salute to Veterans to honor the brave men and women who have served our country. More than 98,000 veterans are cared for in the VA facilities…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the witnesses for this very useful hearing.

I have deep skepticism that continued or deepening military engagement is the solution and in fact real questions about whether it will in fact make it worse and more long term.

this really is a hearing, a misguided hearing, a witch hunt, that has absolutely nothing to do with helping the millions of hardworking Americans

I think that protecting investors, it is terribly important to get rid of the joinder provisions...

If the majority really cared about the victims of the foreclosure crisis, we would be holding a hearing on either the mortgage crisis...

Every single day, our national security personnel work tirelessly to protect Americans from harm. At a time of renewed threats from ISIS around the world and with the recent attacks in France, these men and women have done the tremendous…

This week, President Obama unveiled his fiscal year 2016 budget, which outlines his funding priorities for the year ahead. This proposal builds on the economic progress we have made by properly focusing on middle class initiatives, and it…

Thank you for being present today, and I hope that we will act consistent with the experiences you have had, and do the right thing, and defeat this bill.

We know that lasting peace will only come about as a result of a direct set of negotiations that ultimately lead to a two-state solution.

Can you explain why trusts treat claimant submissions as confidential?

Thank you. I thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.

Until my friends on the other side of the aisle start to treat immigration reform as something more than a political talking point, we are going to be unable to achieve substantive, lasting progress on this issue.

Should these negotiations fail, the United States, the international community together must be prepared to respond appropriately including by using force, if necessary.

I think it is absolutely vital that we undertake in good faith every reasonable effort that we can to reach a non-military solution.