Blake Farenthold

how can we in Congress ensure that ICANN's problems won't become worse and threaten the stability of the Internet after the U.S. Government terminates its contract with ICANN?

I am here today to honor a friend who recently died in a motorcycle accident. On May 3, in my hometown of Corpus Christi, our police chief, Floyd Simpson, died. Originally from Chicago, Chief Simpson felt drawn to Texas. As a 25- year…

Isn't there in effect the forcing down and takedown of Web sites outside of the reach of U.S. law on the basis of an allegation of infringement without any type of hearing or due process?

The concern remains similar to SOPA and PIPA, that you will cast such a broad net that you will infringe on people's free speech rights.

My amendment is very straightforward. If an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs has received a work performance review rated as unsatisfactory in the last fiscal year, he will not be able to receive a salary for this fiscal year…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I understand the concerns that the chairman of the subcommittee has. The breadth was necessary in order to get by the requirement to not be legislating within an appropriations bill. If the chairman is willing to work with me on finding a…

Who is a good guy today may not always be a good guy.

It would be the equivalent of President Kennedy saying, 'We will be able to get to the moon in 10 years and nobody else will ever be able to get there ever.'

I appreciate the chairman yielding time to me, even though I am in support of this amendment. Madam Chair, we need this legislation because our companies, our industries, our government, and even our individual citizens are under attack by…

Today is national fairytale day, and my office has been having some fun with it on Twitter. I got together with the staff, and we came up with some hashtag liberal fairytales: ``If you like your health insurance, you can keep it.''…

Thank you very much. It is an honor and a privilege to be here to speak about the value our local broadcasters bring to our communities. I am a long-time radio guy. At 15 years old, I started hanging around the radio station and ended up…

I appreciate your yielding the time and organizing this wonderful Special Order.

Absolutely. You have got to be out at the events. You have got to say ``yes'' to the folks that come in and say: Could you give us a public service announcement for our cancer walk? Could you give us a public service announcement for our…

You need somebody that has a local news presence. You don't need somebody that has to bring a satellite truck in from a few hundred miles away and can't get there immediately. Sure, The Weather Channel will send Jim Cantore down. I think…

This bill is designed to protect future victims of asbestos, or victims who have not yet discovered their injury.

I am an avid supporter of the Internet; I have been one since the late 1970s. However, there is a dark side to the Internet. There are back pages out there and Web sites that have a business model to make money off of exploiting child sex…

It is important we get this rule done and move on to consideration of H.R. 351. I am from Corpus Christi, Texas. One of the first things that happened when I came to Congress is, I was visited by some folks from a company that was looking…

I do want to point out that the President even understands that there is an ability there for the Ukraine. Speaking in Ukraine recently, he said: ``We welcome the prospect of U.S. LNG efforts in the future since additional global supplies…

Thank you very much, Chairman Goodlatte. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2015. There is no question that the Federal Government and Federal regulations take a heavy toll on businesses of…

Thank you, Chairman Barton. It is great to be here to talk a moment or two about my good friend Ralph Hall. When I was first elected to Congress a few years back, Ralph was one of the first people that I met, being a Texan, and I tell you…

I join with Mr. Lynch in encouraging you to get this job done, get the process finished and fixed. Our Federal workers deserve prompt and adequate processing of their retirement after years of service to this country.

I do not want to shed all my rights to international travel any more than anyone else does, but we have got the obvious countries that we really need to be suspect of.

The American people and my constituents have lost trust in the Government for a variety of reasons, and I do not want to bring politics into public health.

I just want to express publicly and on the record my dismay at the dismantling of what I think has been one of the most effective oversight and reform tools within the government, the inspector general, as being coopted, and, in my…