Lamar Smith: “A country that has lost control of its borders has lost control of its future.”

First of all, I would like to thank the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) for those nice comments. And she is right, this was a very bipartisan effort and a very bipartisan bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the…

The Science Committee has held a number of hearings on the regulatory overreach of the previous Administration's Environmental Protection Agency.

My hope is that every member of the committee will sponsor it or at least a majority.

I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam) for yielding me time, and I thank another gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis) for introducing this legislation. The Equitable Access to Care and Health Act is a bill that I strongly…