Lamar Smith

Enforce immigration laws, and unemployed Americans will be back on the payroll.

These jobs should go to legal workers, many of whom will be minorities.

With unemployment at or over 9 percent for 21 months, jobs are scarce.

Mr. Speaker, the Senate amendment to H.R. 514 extends the three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act for only 90 days. I am disappointed that the Senate refused to agree to the 10-month extension approved by the House earlier this week…

However, given the unprecedented nature of the health care law's individual mandate, it is important that we examine its constitutionality then though it has already been enacted.

The individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance, is the foundation of the new health care law.

The arguments in favor of the constitutionality of the individual mandate are unconvincing and, if accepted, would give the Federal Government almost unlimited power over Americans' lives.

As the Framers of the Constitution understood, Congress has an independent duty to examine the constitutionality of the legislation it considers.

Congress should not take money from taxpayers in fiscally healthy States to give to public employee unions in a handful of spendthrift States.

States are sovereign in our system of federalism and are free to make even very expensive decisions.

The era of Federal bailouts is over.

The source of the information that I have used and that Judge Poe has used in saying that the health care bill is going to cost 800,000 jobs is from a report released yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office, saying that the health…

the American people and American employers know what Washington has not learned: too many regulations impose too many costs and cost too many jobs. The Judiciary Committee is working hard on the reforms we need to tame Washington and…

I believe the CBO. I do believe that the health care bill is going to cost 800,000 jobs.

I think this is one of the most important Subcommittee hearings that the full Judiciary Committee will have this year.

These jobs should go to legal workers.

One effective program to help ensure jobs are reserved for citizens and legal workers is E-Verify.

With unemployment over 9 percent now for 21 months, jobs are scarce and families are worried.

Mr. Speaker, extending the expiring provisions of the Patriot Act will ensure that America's law enforcement officials and intelligence agents are equipped to identify terrorist threats and prevent terrorist acts. The Patriot Act is an…

Next September 11 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on the U.S. in history. America is fortunate not to have suffered another attack of such magnitude in the past decade, but we must not take this relative…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The REINS Act reins in the costly overreach of Federal agencies that stifles job creation and slows economic growth.

The American people in November voted for real change in Washington. One change they want is to stop the flood of regulations that cost jobs and smothers job creation.

The REINS Act makes that change a reality.

Unelected Federal officials for too long have imposed huge costs on the economy and the American people through burdensome regulations.