I thank the gentlelady for yielding. And I appreciate the chair and the ranking member for relentlessly pushing this issue to the House floor as fast as it was possible and to the good folks down at the Senate, Senator Boxer and Senator…

Mr. Speaker, during the Texas War of Independence, the enemy tried to remove a cannon from the town of Gonzales. The defiant Texans flew a flag which stated ``Come and Take It.'' Now, in Montana, an intolerant radical anti-religious group…

My concern, first of all, is the safety of the people in Camp Ashraf when that 31st comes.

He spent all of his time saying this is the reason they are treated the way they are, because you, United States, have designated them as a foreign terrorist organization.

Mr. Speaker, right now, there's probably a group of folks at a large oak table in a marble palace down the street nibbling on their $16 muffins, drinking their lattes, and dreaming up new expensive, ineffective regulations to impose on the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and thank you for your leadership on this issue. I appreciate you, Congressman Green. We've known each other a long time. Thirty years ago we both started as young buck lawyers at the Harris County…

Mr. Speaker, there's been a lot of talk about immigration, border security and all of the problems in between. But let's talk about one part of the immigration issue that has maybe slipped through the cracks and we don't hear much about…

Mr. Speaker, last week I met with over a dozen community bankers in my congressional district. They are concerned for ``the tsunami of regulations'' coming out of Washington, D.C. Now, these are not Wall Street bankers, these are small…

Mr. Speaker, the House in a bipartisan way passed five energy bills months ago. These bills will create American energy jobs right here in America. These bills would allow more energy development in the Gulf of Mexico, in Virginia and in…

Mr. Speaker, during the hot summer days of August, with daily consistent temperatures over 100 degrees, a record drought over the State and hundreds of wildfires burning the plains and prairies of Texas, a miracle from the Lord occurred…

I think one way that we could help a regime change--and I do believe that is the greatest hope for peace, is that there is a regime change and that the little fellow from the desert, Ahmadinejad, be replaced by his own people.