I ask my friend from Texas if he has anything else he would like to add.

I thank my friend from Texas for his remarks. Madam Speaker, I think the gentleman who has spent time at the border, as I have, would appreciate the story that I can recount. When I was last there, there was a conversation involving a…

What I would like to expand upon is an extension of what my friend from Montana was just talking about, what is happening to human beings here in the United States. But now let's talk a little about the impact with respect to COVID and the…

I thank the gentleman for his remarks. He rightfully points out the impact on Miss Steinle and her family and American citizens in California being negatively impacted by illegal immigration. I talked before about Jared Vargas from San…

I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding. Mr. Speaker, right now in south Texas there are American citizens whose lives are in danger because of wide open borders as a direct result of Biden's border crisis and the policies of the…

Officer Tiffany-Victoria Enriquez, Officer Kaulike Kalama, Sheriff Sheldon Gordon Whiteman, Officer Katherine Mary Thyne, I could go on and on 113 times with the names of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty, who were…

I appreciate the gentleman yielding. Madam Speaker, as the gentleman knows, we have had a dialogue back and forth about the need for amendment, the need for debate on the floor. And what I would ask the gentleman is, for example, if the…

I would point out that the Speaker of the House came to the floor and used her magic minute, but doesn't stay on the floor and debate. There is no debate on this floor. And then the Speaker said that there were amendments, 56 amendments…

Does the rule regarding proxy voting require a form be submitted and signed by Members of this body that they have a pandemic- or COVID-related reason for being unable to be physically present? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would…

Would the Chair consider it a violation of the rule for a Member to be present physically here in the Chamber and on the same day vote by proxy having submitted said letter? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair does not look behind a…

Does the Constitution of the United States require a quorum to be present for votes on the House floor? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is not stating a proper parliamentary inquiry. The Chair does not interpret the…

Yeah. There is no question. In my view, what we are seeing today is the assertion of power over the mind of America, right? And it is just happening as we see it. We have got a fence with razor wire around the Capitol. We were all…