The USA Freedom Act took an important step in curtailing surveillance activities, but we should go much further in strengthening our privacy protections.

Today's hearing continues the Judiciary Committee's efforts to deliver urgently needed reforms of Washington's regulatory system--a system that virtually every day places new obstacles in the path of American jobs and economic growth.

The Director of the National Security Agency has said that former Secretary of State Clinton's private e-mail server would be a sought-after target for a foreign intelligence agency.

The USA FREEDOM Act ensures that Federal law appropriately respects civil liberties while providing the necessary tools to preserve our collection capabilities and thereby meet our national security responsibilities.

I once again commend your distinguished service to our Nation, and I'm confident you will continue to serve honorably at the helm of the FBI.

only by allowing the use of strong encryption, not only domestically but internationally as well, can we hope to make the Internet a safe and secure environment.

I again reiterate, this bill is a good bill. It is a very important bill that will help promote law enforcement cooperation around the globe and will help U.S. companies that do business overseas to be able to better obtain the respect and…

I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Sensenbrenner and Ranking Member Conyers for introducing this important bipartisan legislation to extend privacy protections and help ensure that the flow of law enforcement information between the…

I would implore every Member of this Committee to ask two questions in the stillness of his or her heart: First, is deliberately turning a blind eye to the suffering and murder of the most helpless of all of our children born alive in the…

The bill we are examining today, the Fraudulent Joinder Prevention Act, will also help address a litigation abuse that regularly drags small businesses into court.

America's small businesses are some of the leading victims of frivolous lawsuits and the extraordinary costs that our legal system imposes.

Reclaiming my time, I would say to the gentlewoman that the bill allows lots of time for each stage of the permitting process to cover and discover ways to make a project more secure, to make it safer, to improve it in a variety of…

I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson). The question was taken; and the Chair announced that the…

After President Obama's ill-conceived stimulus bill failed, he blamed its failure on the lack of shovel-ready construction projects. President Obama was even quoted in the press to have joked about it. ``Shovel-ready was not as…

I do rise in opposition to this amendment. I do share, however, the interest of the gentleman from Georgia in promoting the common good, as mentioned by Pope Francis when he spoke in this Chamber yesterday. But the common good is people…

America's voters sent the 114th Congress to Washington to help turn around this Nation's struggling economy. For more than 6\1/2\ long years, America's families and workers have been waiting for the Obama administration to join with…

Millions of people have viewed videos of representatives of the organization Planned Parenthood, which performs some 40 percent of all abortions each year. Those videos, recorded undercover, include discussions of instances in which during…

It is my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus).

May I inquire how much time is remaining on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Foxx). The gentleman from Virginia has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from California has 7 minutes remaining.

It is my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), the majority leader. Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, last week, the Judiciary Committee heard testimony from people who had survived abortions. They spoke as…

It is my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Palmer).

I have just one speaker remaining, and I believe I have the right to close.

May I inquire how much time is remaining on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia has 12\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from California has 12\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would just ask the gentleman this: What other sorts of legal claims should a victim be able to prove in court--prove in court, but be denied damages by the judge?

I yield myself such time as I may consume, and I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cartwright).