Trey Gowdy

Doesn't that make more sense?

has enough changed to lift this longstanding ban? Why now? Is post-Revolutionary Libya secure enough to justify the change?

We would have to trust the Libyan Government and Administration to appropriately vet which Libyans would be allowed to learn to fly planes and study nuclear technology.

when you have people in positions of authority and responsibility that are expressing overtly political commentary on Government email, I think we ought to be entitled to all of them.

I would like to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his leadership on this bill and a host of others in the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Chairman, I want to have a pop quiz. That may seem unfair to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, but I…

I want to talk for just a moment as colleagues--not as Republicans or Democrats, not as members of the majority or the minority, but colleagues who are blessed to serve in the United States House of Representatives, the people's House…

I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte. I also want to thank my friend and colleague from the great State of South Carolina, Mr. Tom Rice, whose legal research and expertise and acumen and leadership is one of the reasons we are here today. I…

I withdraw my point of order and rise in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The point of order is withdrawn. The gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, prosecutorial discretion encompasses the executive power to decide whether to bring charges, seek punishment, penalties, or sanctions. This next line is really important. It does not include the power…

If apprehension itself becomes a golden ticket into the country, the three bills that are the subject of today's hearing... would finally provide the American people with a strong immigration enforcement system.

But I have got to stress--at least in my district--what will undercut people's generosity of spirit quicker than anything else is fraud.

God knows why they don't trust you to enforce immigration laws. They will trust you for everything else.

It is hard for me to understand, with respect to people like the sheriff and my own sheriffs, how we trust them with every other category of crime.

We cannot allow this or any other president to shut down Federal immigration enforcement efforts unilaterally.

The president may be the boss of Federal law enforcement personnel but he does not control State and local law enforcement agencies.

Call me skeptical, I don't know any group of 11 million except perhaps nuns that could all pass a background check.

I have never spent a moment wondering about his motives.

We are a Nation of laws but a people of humanity and compassion.

The number one function of government is public safety.

I wish one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would ask the President how in the world he concluded no criminality.

How can the President say there's not a smidgen of criminality, when Lois Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendment?

I think undermines the hard work that the men and woman of your Department do.

One of the most enjoyable parts of our job is speaking to children at schools, and you get some tough and interesting questions. A couple of months ago, a precious child at a school in upstate South Carolina asked me who was the most…

I am debating the logic of returning to a country that you are so fearful of that you want to permanently stay in another country.

Maybe they need ankle bracelets, Mr. Chairman. Maybe we need other monitoring processes to help them.