Just a few weeks ago, maybe even a few months ago, I had the privilege of listening partly to the testimony of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, a brilliant expression of a seasoned and competent, qualified and wise attorney that has…

Let me thank my colleagues and thank Congresswoman Kelly and Chairman Butterfield for the opportunity to carry forward the spirit of the 50th commemoration of the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let me also begin by thanking our…

As a member of the Homeland Security Committee and one who was in a security briefing this morning, I cannot celebrate more to the brave men and women of the Department of Homeland Security that many of us stood up collectively together as…

Congressional dysfunction is now impacting our nation's security. The Senate has acted rationally by passing a clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill. The House should do the same. The House majority should take up the Senate…

I thank the gentlewoman very much, and I thank her for her commonsense explanation. Might I say, as a member of the authorizing Committee on Homeland Security, I believe, as we have just heard, that the Senate has passed a clean Department…

I thank my good friend from New York for the time; and my good friend, as well, on the Rules Committee, let me thank you for the time. We share time on the Judiciary Committee. He is a good friend. In this instance, I vigorously disagree…

I thank the gentlelady. Madam Speaker, that order answers their concern about the executive action. In the meantime, we have every opportunity tonight, today to vote on a clean full funding of the Department of Homeland Security until…

Let me thank the gentlelady for her excellent work on the Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the Committee on Appropriations and the gentleman, Mr. Carter. To the statements that have been made on the floor, might I just chronicle a more…

Let me thank the gentleman from Indiana for his kindness this evening as I have listened to the debate. I want to thank the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Scott, and Mr. Kline, who have worked diligently. We could not have come…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 354, line 19, strike ``two'' and insert ``three''. Page 355, after line 15, insert the following…

I thank the gentleman from Colorado and the gentlewoman from North Carolina for their leadership. Mr. Speaker, I think you can look at me and understand the importance of the Federal Government, for when I went to school, those of us of…

I am pleading and asking unanimous consent that the House bring up H.R. 861, the clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill that, in this climate of terrorism, would keep the Department open so that it can carry out its mission of…