our legislative body has surrendered so much of our power and authority to the executive branch.

Article I comes first and deals with the legislative branch.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in opposition to this latest attempt by the Democrats to increase their power at the expense of longstanding American traditions and the Constitution. Sadly, this is not at all surprising…

We must establish an America- first immigration policy. However, the Democrats are doing the opposite, with illegal aliens first, foreign nations first, and future Democrat voters first. Law-abiding American citizens are clearly last on…

As more of American life is being put online, more of it is being put out of reach of Americans without high-speed Internet access, and those without are falling further behind.

Memo to my friends across the aisle: violence, including workplace violence, is already illegal; and it should always be prosecuted, regardless of whether it happens in the name of Antifa or BLM, or even if it is directed at those police…

In that spirit, Madam Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Foxx for her leadership on regulatory reform with her Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act. I am proud to stand with her as we try to shrink the size of the Federal…

I thank Ranking Member Foxx for yielding. Mr. Speaker, everyone supports equal pay for equal performance, and everyone is against gender-based wage discrimination. This has been the law for nearly 60 years. When I entered the workforce 30…

It is really a travesty for us to leave that to future generations.

I have long maintained that our national debt and our spending is one of the greatest threats to our republic and a day of reckoning is coming.

Together we have got to be solution oriented.

I thank the distinguished ranking member from Missouri for yielding this time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 1868, the Democrats' attempt to put a Band-Aid on their out-of-control spending, and this bill tries to…

Democrats are using domestic violence, which is a serious issue, as a front for just their latest gun control bill. This legislation contains red flag gun confiscation language and expands the grounds for lifetime bans of firearm…

These alleged discriminations that we're hearing about were eradicated largely before I entered the workplace some 30 plus years ago.

I thank my distinguished colleague and fellow Member from Texas for yielding. Our country's future will forever be changed based on how we manage or refuse to manage Biden's border crisis. And, yes, it is a crisis. Steady merit-based legal…

These bills purport to correct problems that are largely not existent.

These bills seem to flow from a lack of understanding by our majority on the true practices that exist at virtually all businesses.

I thank the esteemed congressman from Texas, who has been quite a champion on this issue. Madam Speaker, no nation in the history of the world has been more welcoming to immigrants than the United States. And no nation in the history of…

This bill is what Democrat control looks like. At $1.9 trillion, this bill spends an average of $6,000 per American citizen. What would you say to somebody claiming to be a friend, who forced you to take out a loan for $6,000 because he…

Unions make American companies less efficient, less profitable, less competitive, and they cost American jobs. I actually worked in a unionized auto factory during college, and I saw the problems with unions firsthand. Unions protect the…

Shall not be infringed. Shall not be infringed. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. James Madison, our fourth President, the primary architect of the Constitution and the first Congressman from Virginia's…

The right to organize is appropriately protected in America, the right to organize fairly, honestly, and transparently. My amendment would provide greater fairness and transparency by prohibiting so-called neutrality agreements. These…

The bottom line is this rule would advance unconstitutional legislation that undermines the Second Amendment for law-abiding citizens. It is amazing that lawful gun ownership has been so politicized by the left that it is now common to ask…

This so-called Equality Act is the culmination of a 50-year effort by the radical left to attack our values, our families, our children, and our religious freedoms. I ran for office as a Biblical and constitutional Conservative because I…

In their continued relentless assault on religious freedoms, Democrats are trying today, with this terrible bill, to make wholesale and damaging changes to our Nation's civil rights laws with little to no debate or even discussion on how…