Ted Poe

I would urge this amendment be adopted. What it does is provide more space so that we can detain people and deport them back where they came from. I yield back the balance of my time. Point of Order

This money is necessary so that people who live in border areas can communicate with law enforcement. Cell phone service is a basic necessity for security. It is a national security issue. It is a homeland security issue, and it is a…

For every dollar handed out we will be able to ask, How does this further the interest of the United States?

We need to bring transparency and accountability back to the process.

In my opinion the foreign aid process is a mess. Fifty years after a Foreign Aid Authorization Act the process is still what President Kennedy called bureaucratic, fragmented, awkward, and slow.

I sincerely just hope that the United States is able to use its prestige to encourage Iraq to let these people live in peace.

What are we doing besides talking? It just seems to me, when all is said and done, more is said than done.

But what has happened? Let's just talk about one side at a time.

But what are we doing?

I agree with the ranking member, Mr. Sherman, that we ought to look at the most favored nation status that we bequeathed on China.

It's their legalized theft and their sort of old-fashioned stealing.

It seems to me that China operates under two systems, legalized theft and just old-fashioned theft.

I think there is no greater tyrant on Earth than the little fellow from the desert, Ahmadinejad, and the way he treats his people.

I believe, like you, that deep down in our soul everybody in the whole world has this burning desire for freedom.

This issue is an issue of public safety, which is the first obligation of the Federal Government, to protect the people, to protect the homeland. And that is why it's important the Federal Government get out of the way of the State of…

It prohibits the EPA from overreaching and from expanding its authority that Congress, in my opinion, has not given it to do. CO<INF>2</INF>. We all breathe CO<INF>2</INF>. Climate changes, but there is no evidence at all that it is…

I do not believe everybody that comes into the United States illegally is coming here to do work Americans won't do.

I believe basically, though, you come here legally or you don't come.

E-Verify is a way to make sure that employers are hiring folks that are legally here.

I believe we need--I'll try to keep it simple--more innovation, swifter patents, more jobs, and a whole lot less pirates and thieves in our patent system.

She's made up her mind about her beliefs. She's made up her mind about the will to represent the people in Arizona. And I believe she's made up her mind to survive, because only 5 percent of gunshot wounds to the head, those people…

It's a legal document, not the birth certificate.

It's a legal document, not a birth certificate.

I want to thank the chairman for bringing this legislation to the floor. It's very important to the Parker family in my district, the people that Mr. Fortenberry in Nebraska mentioned, and the 1,200 families and children that are going to…

In closing, Mr. Speaker, the United Nations reports that North Korea trades in missiles and nuclear technology with not only Syria and Iran, but even Burma. And this is a grave situation since China won't do anything, and North Korea takes…