Today marks the 46th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King being gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King is well-known for his speech, ``I Have a Dream,'' about civil rights and social justice. When he died, he was fighting for…

I thank the gentlewoman for the opportunity to speak. Mr. Speaker, the Affordable Care Act hit a significant milestone yesterday: over 7 million people signed up for health care. I was very proud of it. I voted for the Affordable Care Act…

I appreciate the gentleman's yielding. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 15 to demand a vote on the bipartisan immigration reform bill that reduces our deficit by $900 billion over the next 2 years, according to the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you yielding. Mr. Chairman, as some of my colleagues said so eloquently during last week's Judiciary markup on this bill, that the majority's attempts to turn routine exercises of Presidential…

I would just like to say that while this legislation and the previous legislation is going nowhere, we should be dealing with the issues that face the American people, the serious issue of jobs and the environment and global warming and…

First, I want to set the record straight before we get too much revisionist history here. Yesterday in the Rules Committee, the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee, Mr. Sessions, said that President Obama liked the law so…

First, I would like to say that Federal officer may be mentioned many times in the code, but not defined; not defined. Madam Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren).

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would just like to respond a little bit to what was said, and it was said in a previous discussion by my friend from South Carolina about why Congress is in such disrepute. He was thinking, if…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, more of the same. As with our consideration of the ``ENFORCE Act,'' H.R. 4138, I must note the lack of deliberative process pertaining to consideration of this bill. The gentleman…

Before I yield to Ms. Lofgren, I would just like to comment a couple of things. Without disrespect to our Founding Fathers--I revere them all alike-- but Mr. Franks was talking about President Madison and the noble experiment and asked the…

You said you would definitely get a whole bunch of folks on both sides of the aisle?