At the core of the House Judiciary Committee priorities are the fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed to Americans such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom from having the government…

I know you can't, because you never did the homework. You never did the work necessary to prove that this was a worthwhile undertaking.

Does the EPA not view the financial impact of the rules it inflicts upon America's farmers, and homeowners, and taxpayers, and small communities that dot the Shenandoah Valley in my district, do you not view that financial impact to be of…

But when you take the law into your own hands, and do it contrary to what the Clean Water Act provides, you get lawsuits, rather than progress.

Record numbers of unaccompanied alien minors and adults traveling with minors are again surging across our southern border, overwhelming Federal and state resources, creating a border security nightmare, and ensuring record profits for the…

This surge will undoubtedly produce similar victims.

A leaked DHS intelligence report shows the Obama administration's lax immigration policies are fueling this current surge.

is essentially rewriting the law by blowing wide open a small window of discretion that Congress gave it for law enforcement and national security reasons.

I would hope that regardless of what position people take on the substantive issues that come before the Congress, including health care and the Affordable Care Act, that people would not attempt to change the meaning of the Constitution…

It is easy to make decisions when the Federal Government has to come up with the resources to pay for it.

Then-House Agriculture Nutrition Subcommittee Chairman Bob Goodlatte introduced legislation to move us to the nationwide, interoperable system we have today.

unless we reform programs like the SNAP Program, and a number of other entitlement programs, there is going to be a shrinking supply of funds for all of these programs, given the fact that we now have $500 billion to $1 trillion annual…

May I ask how much time is remaining on each side? The CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 14 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Michigan has 16\3/4\ minutes remaining.

It is my pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Trott), a member of the Committee on the Judiciary.

The American people have waited too long for relief for us to delay in the face of this procedural motion. Now is the time for action, not parliamentary gimmicks. We are 7 years into the Obama administration. Real unemployment is still a…

Title II of the bill contains transparency requirements that are long overdue. To make sure that agencies comply and conduct their business in the sunshine, it prohibits an agency from entering a new regulation into effect unless the…

Just to say to the gentleman from Georgia that it is entirely reasonable that regulations proposed to protect the people, as he notes, should be known by the people before they are put into effect because they may decide it is not the way…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I strongly support her amendment. Over the past several decades, the accumulation of unfunded mandates issued by the Federal Government to State and local governments, tribes, and the private…

Title II of the bill, the ALERT Act, contains needed transparency requirements so that hardworking Americans who bear the cost of new regulation at least know in realtime what is coming and what it will cost them to comply. Just like…

It has been years since Federal officials declared that the Great Recession had ended and recovery had begun. It has been years since the Obama administration took office, promising to deliver prosperity and security once more to our…

As we begin 2016, we face the same difficulty we have faced since the beginning of the Obama administration. Because the administration and the entrenched Washington regulatory bureaucracy insist on piling burden upon burden on the backs…

Every day at home and abroad, uniformed men and women risk their lives to protect our freedom and way of life. Among those brave souls are military reservists and members of the National Guard, who have been called to duty in Iraq…

I urge my colleagues to support this important legislation that continues a very good practice that benefits our Guard and Reserve members. I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the chairman for yielding and for his and other members of the Ways and Means Committee's outstanding work on this legislation. I am here to talk about another aspect of it. Time is short. A temporary ban on State taxation of…

I wonder if you could give us a comprehensive description of what it does mean to use open source.