Pete Sessions

I would suppose that those five or six or seven will not ever vote for Mr. McCarthy and the other is based upon pure and simple negotiating skills and tactics and agreements.

I don't think there's any question in my mind that Mr. McCarthy wants to be in a position of strength, and until the bitter end, until he had replied back and knew the answer of what was being asked for him and he would not want to move…

Well, I think the negotiation with Mr. McCarthy, if it's not successful, they'll be looking for the next able person who will agree with what Mr. McCarthy would not agree with.

So it would definitely be designed to have a less powerful not just Speaker, but a less powerful majority. So, it would mean the majority would be like a King with no clothes.

The appearances of what we're talking about, of the Rules Committee, that the Chairman of the Rules Committee traditionally is literally the most powerful Chairman in Washington, DC, because they have the ability to self-execute bills.

This negotiation that it took place with Mr. McCarthy was really a wide ranging viewpoint not just on his duties as Speaker here, but also his campaign activities as he would engage himself and the money that he collected across the…

I appreciate the gentleman from Pennsylvania yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, today America faces the Congress as we debate--yes, debate--just days before Christmas, this spending that will take place next year. In the 20 years I spent on…

We don't need to get into it, but what we consider to be from the Federal court here, the District Court of Appeals here in D.C., that the CFPB is unconstitutionally constructed.

It is important what we are doing here because our friends, the Democrats, were arguing that there is no additional rights of action, that this isn't going to change anything. In fact, this same discussion that we are having, if that is…

As we end this session of Congress in the next few weeks, I remind all Members we are acutely aware that without congressional action, the entire healthcare clinician community faces a cumulative Medicare payment cut in reduction of…

I thank Congressman Weber very much for not only preparing this opportunity for us to honor our colleague and a Member who will be leaving this body after a number of years, the great judge and Congressman, Louie Gohmert. I rise tonight…

We were completely unsuccessful in attempting to get HUD to even respond properly.

I have tried, and we have had at least one hearing with Secretary Fudge of HUD.

It is important for us to know that the most popular strains in Colorado ranged from 17 percent to 28 percent THC by 2017--a 400 percent increase from 1970.

If you look at CDC, provisional data from CDC indicates that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States.

I'm hopeful that my colleagues will communicate across the aisle, and let's deal with this honestly.

I support life from conception to natural death, and I make no apologies for that.

It will not be, in my opinion, decided in the near term, because we have a President who's been duly elected, who would not sign that legislation.

But what I would say is let's--let's not beat up this issue with what I believe is hyperbole to just beat the issue up and talk about nationwide ban is what Republicans want to do and they want to take away all these rights and obligations.

Well, in fact, the Supreme Court ruled that it's not a constitutional issue. It's states' rights issue.

Madam Chairman, today's activities are designed to divide Congress, to divide the American people, and not to bring us together.

They have placed arbitrarily California and millions of people in a diminished position: elderly people, people in hospitals, people who are disabled, people who actually need balance in their life.

It is hard to find a balance when two sides with hundreds of people on each side, perhaps thousands, are actually so committed to their side that they really cannot see the need for the other.

I want to thank you, I think, for holding this hearing today because I think public discussion on both sides of this issue and issues is necessary.

Congressman Johnson comes down here week in and week out and talks about not just the problems that face our great Nation but really the discussions that I want to bring tonight about families who sit at home, families who sit around…