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 34, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $500,000)''. Page 38, line 2, after the…

Again, let me offer my appreciation to Mr. Wolf and Mr. Fattah for leading this appropriations legislation. Commerce, Justice, Science--Commerce, Justice, Science--the reason I say it in that way is because many of us are on the…

Let me, again, express my appreciation for this appropriation and make a statement regarding some of the jurisdiction that comes under Commerce and Justice that is not particularly being discussed at this moment, but I thought it was…

Let me take this moment to thank the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. Wolf, for his longstanding service and commitment to so many issues that so many of us have worked on for such a very long period of time, helping the most vulnerable…

I thank the gentleman. As indicated, the bill specifically contains an explicit prohibition on bulk collection of tangible things pursuant to section 215. The FREEDOM Act provides that section 215 may be used only where specific selection…

All that we do and all that America does is owed to the greatness of our Constitution and to men and women whom we will honor this coming Monday, Memorial Day. I call today upon Americans, wherever they may be, to stop for a moment to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time, and I thank the ranking member and the chairman for this work. I also thank Mr. Sensenbrenner, who we have worked with from the first stages of the PATRIOT Act, when the Judiciary Committee…

Thank you so very much. Mr. Speaker, let me indicate that there are many reasons to be concerned about the rule. I am certainly concerned that we are not able to debate a very important issue dealing with Afghanistan. Having spent almost a…

A little girl that I met today tells her story all the way from Nigeria, where her father was killed refusing to deny his faith, the brother was killed because they thought he might become a pastor, and the little girl was placed between…

I thank both the distinguished ranking member and the distinguished chairman for their courtesies and as well my fellow cosponsors of this amendment, Congresswoman Barbara Lee from California and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson from…

It is an honor to stand on this floor in the midst of Military Appreciation Month and be from a State that had the highest numbers of young men and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, comparing to States like California and…

I thank the gentleman very much. Again, this is a historic day, Madam Speaker, and it is a day, tragically, when we wish we had been able to stamp out this dastardly act, if you will, collective act of trafficking of our children, the…