Bob Goodlatte

The hardest, toughest, dirtiest jobs

The H-2A program is a costly, time-consuming, and flawed program.

We do not question Congressman Goodlatte's commitment to improving our immigration system for agriculture

A guestworker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage.

I say this not to punish these workers. I say this because this is a balance that we are trying to find between the interests of American workers and workers that we need because there is a shortage.

Farmers who participate in the H-2A program do so as a matter of last resort and conscience.

It is a costly, time-consuming, and flawed program.

If you want to go ahead and just summarize each of the last two points, because I know you do want to get all nine in, but we are out of time.

And my time has run out, but the question that I have for you and for all advocates of immigration reform is whether you want a political solution or a policy solution?

Well, seeing as Liberty University is a fine institution in the Sixth Congressional District of Virginia, and I think very highly of Dean Staver, we will admit all of those, without objection, to the record.

Are we serious about ending the insidious practice of human trafficking? Are we serious about punishing those who prey on folks with false promises and fraudulent documents?

I think we can all agree that America will remain true to our heritage as a Nation of immigrants as well as a Nation of laws.

That concludes the reading of the United States Constitution. I want to thank the gentlemen who arrived and were available, but we ran out of Constitution before we ran out of readers. I want to thank the Speaker and all the Members who…

I now yield to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. DelBene). Ms. DelBENE. ``But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered…

I now yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. DeSantis). Mr. DeSANTIS. Article I, section 3: ``The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote…

I now yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. La Malfa). Mr. La MALFA. ``No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who…

I thank my colleagues for coming together on this legislation. I believe that it is very good legislation that modernizes the use of the Internet and the use of information that people want to share with each other. It makes it feasible to…

The Constitution is a sacred contract between the Federal Government and the people in which the American people chose to bind themselves to a set of rules in order to protect their God given freedom from abusive leaders and governments.

I continue to believe that consumer privacy is paramount, the cloud offers new and innovative ways for the technologically savvy criminal to exploit the cloud for nefarious purposes.

I would ask that the printout that we have here from the department's website, under the ICE section entitled '287(g) success stories,' which has printed out six pages of very, very small print, scores of success stories with regard to the…

You have a serious morale problem that has only gotten worse since you have taken over.

Do you regard that 9-month time period to answer questions as being timely?

If you are a troll, it is almost impossible to get a district court injunction.

I refuse to let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and when I do, I should simply resign or leave this institution immediately.

This raises unnecessary and artificial hurdles to our economic recovery and distorts competition in the financial services market.