I thank the gentleman from Iowa for yielding, and I also want to thank Representative King for his good work on the Judiciary Committee. I have just been listening to his last few comments and appreciate his pointing out so many facts…

Mr. Speaker, television network news stories about Arizona immigration enforcement law have been overwhelmingly negative, according to a new analysis by the Media Research Center. From April 23 to May 3, negative news reports on ABC, CBS…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this bill is the single most important copyright bill to be considered by this Congress to date. It represents the culmination of a legislative process that began with…

Mr. Speaker, here is the state of the Union: Unemployment remains almost 10 percent. Sixteen million people have lost their jobs. Taxes are going up. The health care bill costs $300 billion more than the American people were told. The…

Madam Speaker, after days of a national media pounding the new Arizona immigration law and highlighting demonstrations against it, guess what? The number of Americans who describe illegal immigration as a serious problem actually…

Mr. Speaker, when it comes to the subject of immigration, The New York Times is fast losing its credibility. A New York Times editorial says the new Arizona immigration law turns all the State's citizens into criminal suspects. Of course…

Mr. Speaker, Arizona's immigration enforcement law mirrors what is already in Federal law. So why are some special interest groups in an uproar? It shouldn't be surprising. The very same people who want to throw out Arizona's new…

I thank you for yielding. It seems to me that this bill is almost the exact opposite of self- determination. Self-determination would be allowing the people in Puerto Rico to determine whether or not to have a referendum, a plebiscite, and…

Mr. Speaker, during the Presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama made a firm pledge that, ``No family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.'' The nonpartisan fact-checkers of Politifact say the administration…

First of all, I thank the ranking member of the committee and the gentleman from Washington State for yielding. Mr. Chairman, there are at least three reasons to oppose this bill, any one of which should be persuasive. First, it rigs a…

Mr. Speaker, in a recent editorial praising Arizona for its action to enforce immigration laws, Investor's Business Daily said the following: ``There are 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona, a number that increases daily, placing an…