If we as the one free beacon of liberty and hope can't stand to protect and secure rule of law, then I don't know what we are here for.

The Obama administration needs to do more to counter Hezbollah and Iran in Syria, which means delivering a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIS and the Assad-Hezbollah-Iran nexus.

In fact, over 40 percent of the people that are here illegally didn't cross the border illegally; they come on a visa, and they don't go home.

I was happy to see the proposed increase in the fiscal year 2017 budget request for those programs, and I hope that Congress will fully support the request.

Now, we have seen concrete evidence in Harrisburg. Where else is this happening? How many more Asher Potts are there Nation-wide?

As I have said in the past, NIST may be the most important federal agency that most people have never heard of.

I want to welcome the mayor of New York, and also my fire chief, Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, who is also the president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and she's a friend of mine back home.

Article 6 of the Genocide Convention, as we all know, makes very, very clear that the prosecution of individuals who have committed genocide is a treaty obligation under the Genocide Convention.

Proposing cuts to the programs that keep the homeland safe would be foolish in any case, but they are particularly outrageous at a time when our threat level is the highest it has been since 2001.

We have heard time and again that these grant programs have made a difference.

It would seem that either the President doesn't believe these threats exist or he doesn't care.