Mr. Speaker, I rise today as part of the growing chorus of Americans calling for Republicans to stop playing politics with the safety of the American people and to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. A small group of elected…

Do you think these folks are so patriotic and so wanting to go vote that they want so much to go vote more than 61 percent of the Kansans who didn't want to go vote?

Certainly, Mr. Dunlap, would you agree that when there is photo ID passed or voter ID passed there are some legitimate voters who are not going to be able to vote because they don't have the ID with them?

I served in the Texas legislature when the legislature passed the Texas voter ID law.

I do think with the President's change in normalization in diplomatic relations toward Cuba that the power of American culture and the power of our technology and our democracy will ultimately win out.

I see this as positioning the United States for when they are gone.

I think that is what the average American thinks.

Mr. Speaker, this piece of legislation is both risky and callous. It asks Americans to give into their worst instincts. If you or someone you know is out of a job, blame an immigrant; if an undocumented person commits a crime, they are all…

``The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to…

Thank you, Congressman Polis. Mr. Speaker, Democrats have said all along that we understand that when you have a bill that is this wide in scope, whether it is hundreds of pages or thousands of pages, regardless of the subject matter…

Those predictions have turned out to be completely misguided and false. This country is going through an incredible economic expansion, almost 5 percent. The unemployment rate is below 6 percent. And so, as we go through this debate, I…