Bob Goodlatte

Many regulations fail to accommodate Americans' religious beliefs.

I have joined Mr. Conyers for years in trying to rectify that.

I just don't want the Congress to screw it up.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I share the gentleman from Florida's interest and support for shield laws as well, but I don't believe this has been carefully vetted. There are implications here about exactly who has the right to make…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Huffman

This is where I came in a little while ago. The gentlewoman was correct, that I was speaking earlier about this amendment and not hers. However, I oppose both these amendments. The principle is the same. With regard to this amendment, I…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, no one denies the constitutional power of the President to grant clemency. The question here is whether this power is being used by the President of the United States as a way around the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I agree with the gentleman. That is why, last year, we launched an overcriminalization of Federal law task force. We are looking at prison overpopulation and who is getting sentenced and…

First of all, let me say that it would not achieve the purpose of having a competitive bid process for the operation of prisons. Because if you would accept that premise you would have the Federal Government offering contracts; then if…

I do not yield, Mr. Chairman. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman does not yield. The gentleman from Virginia may proceed.

Such institutions of higher education or State departments of agriculture simply need to first become registered with the DEA as an importer or as a researcher and, second, obtain an import permit authorizing the shipment of seeds. The…

I do not. I don't have enough time, I don't believe, to finish my remarks. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia is recognized.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I join him in opposition to this amendment. Mr. Chair, the purpose of this amendment ostensibly is to make it easier to import seeds for the purpose of research with regard to growing or cultivating…

I think it was the absolutely correct decision.

I am not in favor of having States issue licenses to people who are not lawfully here.

And any assistance the U.S. gives to them to help secure that border with Guatemala I think will pay dividends for both Mexico and the United States.

I have reached no conclusion at this point. But I anticipate that, if confirmed, I will become fully immersed in this issue.

Right now there are over 860,000 such people who are under deportation orders and who are not detained and have not left the United States.

Not administrating the program is also a missed opportunity to address the problem with the release of criminal aliens back into our society.

Isn't it also true that the DHS could have detained most of these criminal aliens, but simply chose not to?

The President is being helpful to the process when he works with the Congress and suggests that he wants to accomplish immigration reform, but he hurts the efforts in the Congress when he says, 'If you don't do it' and the suggestion is…

Why should we negotiate if we can't trust the President to enforce the laws as they exist.

That makes doing immigration reform harder, not easier.

I appreciate the President's recognition of the importance of doing immigration reform.

At this time, I have only one speaker remaining, and I am prepared to close our portion of the remarks if the gentleman is prepared to close.