Pat Fallon

the narcotic trafficking alone is about $25 billion a year, what the cartels are making, and an additional $12 billion now with all the illegal migrant taxes that they are hacking on

We seem to hear a lot, unfortunately, I think, about distractions.

I would like to use my five minutes to highlight what an excellent job the Biden Administration has done in lowering gas prices on behalf of the American people.

If there is ever a time where our government becomes the sole arbiter of truth, then we have lost the United States.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is about common sense. For 2 years, our constituents have been calling our office and wondering why the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the VA aren't answering their…

I thank the gentleman for yielding additional time. Mr. Speaker, the Veterans Affairs Administration has hundreds of thousands of backlogged claims. As for the Social Security Administration, The Washington Post states, ``More than 1…

I think we are discussing the largest case of fraud in the history of the United States.

I think we are discussing the largest case of fraud in the history of the United States, and, frankly, this might be the largest case of fraud in human history.

If a Republican said we've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active and we've got to get more confrontational, we've got to make sure that they know we mean business.

But it almost did occur. A few years back, James T. Hodgkinson shot Steve Scalise, who's now the majority leader, or will soon be the majority leader in the next Congress, and almost killed him.

What I want to avoid, though, is to place blame on people that have a different political philosophy, because the vast majority, and I'm talking 99.999 and you just keep going of Americans, don't want to harm anyone and don't harm anyone.

I'm not aware of any multiple incidents like that. I don't think it has happened, fortunately, in history because we'd go down a very dark tunnel if that did occur.

I don't want people to get into somebody's face and get confrontational.

It shouldn't be a partisan issue when we talk about the border and border security. You know what it really comes down to? It is the United States of America versus the Mexican drug cartels. In April of this year, we had 234,000 illegal…

Again, for procedural reasons, I encourage my colleagues to vote against this bill so we may return to regular order in consideration of postal naming in the naming measures going forward this year and into the 118th Congress. Madam…

I encourage all of our colleagues to support this bill honoring a loyal, public servant, and as Representative Ellzey just said, a gentleman and a gentle man, Ron Wright. I yield back the balance of my time.

The safety of our students participating in Junior ROTC is paramount to a successful program.

Make no mistake, sexual harassment and abuse, as we all know, has no place in our military, especially in Junior ROTC.

I thank my dear friend from West Texas for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, time and again, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have put our country in a financial choke hold. Mr. Speaker, they believe that the only solution to fix…

We got to fix it. We will fix it. We commit to fixing it.

It is unconscionable for this administration to ignore an entire branch of government by refusing to allow Cabinet-level witnesses.

Democratically controlled cities in our country, with the most restrictive gun laws, have actually higher murder rates.

The fact of the matter is that more gun laws and restrictive gun laws do not lessen crime.

This bill is political theater, and it is a complete farce.

More gun laws does not equal less crime.