Bob Goodlatte

Americans have long been promised tougher immigration enforcement in exchange for the legalization of those unlawfully in the U.S.

It will play an integral role in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws and the discontinuation of the jobs magnet responsible for so much illegal immigration.

We will not only provide the Administration with the tools it needs, we will also act to ensure that the President cannot unilaterally shut down immigration enforcement in this country.

I think that Congress needs to debate is whether the policies of this Administration encourage further illegal immigration into the United States or not.

Isn't that exactly what DHS has been doing, suspending the deportation process and creating an enforcement-free zone for millions of unlawful and criminal aliens?

The oath we took as Members of the Congress was not, as much as we love it, to defend Arizona or California or Virginia; it was to defend the Constitution of the United States.

This year Congress will engage in a momentous debate on immigration.

The facts tell a different story.

If you believe in market theory, wages should be going up. They are not. It has something to do with immigration.

I was particularly taken by your statement, which I agree with, that the primary purpose of our immigration laws is to protect the jobs and wages of American workers.

Selective enforcement of the law is destructive to our system. Ignoring laws simply because we wish they weren't laws is destructive to the system.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I strongly support her amendment to H.R. 240, which prohibits Federal funding or resources from being used to adjudicate any new, renewal, or previously denied application for the President's…

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Marino), the chairman of the subcommittee.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Farenthold), the vice chairman of the Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law Subcommittee.

At this time I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus).

I am happy to yield an additional minute to the gentlewoman from Washington.

At this time it is my pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Herrera Beutler).

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Trott), a new member of the House Judiciary Committee.

It is my pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Marino), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law of the House Judiciary Committee.

At this time, it is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson), who has worked with us across the aisle on this legislation for the last two Congresses. This issue goes back far before that as well. I…

I now yield to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo). Mr. LoBIONDO. Amendment XXV: Section 1: ``In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.'' Section…

I now yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock). Mr. McCLINTOCK. Section 5: ``Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.'' Section 6: ``This article shall be…

I now yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the minority leader.

I now yield to the gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. McMorris Rodgers), the Republican Conference chair. Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Amendment VIII: ``Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual…

I now yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McNerney). Mr. McNERNEY. New Hampshire: John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman. Massachusetts: Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King. Connecticut: William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman. New York: Alexander…