Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for the hard work you have put into this difficult situation. Mr. Speaker, we are here tonight because this Congress has a responsibility to immediately stop the humanitarian crisis on our southern…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for yielding. Madam Speaker, as we speak, unaccompanied minors continue to be sent from Central America through drug cartel smuggling networks across Mexico and through our southern border. Families are being lied…

To fully support the Customs and Border Protection's mission, we include a provision to allow unfettered access to Federal lands. Right now, through a memorandum of understanding, Border Patrol officials are only permitted to pursue…

I have been on the border with night vision glasses to see what we have to do, and the fact that oftentimes you can see people coming across the border but you can't get to them because we don't have an easy way to do that.

I saw children that were kept in places that--on dirty floors and sleeping without blankets and things that we expect in Beirut, we don't expect here in McAllen, Texas.

Mr. Speaker, I have been looking forward to this day ever since I first learned about the greatest untold story of World War II, and that was 8 years ago. For me, my journey with the Monuments Men began at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort…

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 211, due to a previously scheduled, and very important, constituent event in my district, I will not be present for this vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' personal explanation

I was in Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis were talking about what was going on with Iran and how vital it was that we stop them from having a nuclear weapon.

It is really going to hurt and you have said that and I appreciate that.

The needs have never been greater. New and troubling conflicts have broken out in South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

At the end of the day, the trafficking report doesn't just shine a light on what countries are doing.