The contributions of highly-skilled and educated immigrants to the United States are well-documented.

Economic growth is the key to recovery of job creation, the success of Main Street businesses and the hope of America's global competitiveness.

We need a civil justice system that deters wrongdoers and fully compensates victims.

It simply establishes the principle, 'No major regulation without representation.'

One of my top priorities in this Congress will be to do everything possible to reduce the regulatory burdens that our nation's small businesses are facing.

Let me be clear. Congress cannot sit silent while America's economic growth is imperiled.

We must not forget that it was the lack of adequate regulation which caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Sago Mine disaster, the mortgage foreclosure crisis, and the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession that followed.

The overreach of Obama administration regulations is one of the chief reasons the economy has failed adequately to recover.

Let me be clear, Congress cannot sit silent while America's economic growth is imperiled.

I don't think that the Attorney General of the United States can decline to come before this Committee on a subject that is so clearly within our jurisdiction.

this needs to have the Administration actually show up to the game.

The Honorable Bob Goodlatte, a Representative in Congress from the State of Virginia, and Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary

We don't want to put ourselves in the position with this analogy drawn by Mr. Wittes that we are going to rely on the foreign government to protect the rights of the United States citizen, as opposed to our own government protecting those…

Nearly every discussion regarding the reform of U.S. immigration laws acknowledges that we must have in place a nationwide, mandatory system for employers to electronically verify the work authorization of their employees.

E-verify is not the entire solution, but it is a critical part of the enforcement solution.

We need to know more, and I hope that the way that we conduct this hearing individually among our Members of the Committee will convince the Administration that this is not personal, nor political, and that all we are seeking is…

I do want to say how important I think E-Verify is as we work through the entire issue of immigration law reform.

I share it, and I will work with him and the other Members on his side of the aisle, as well as the other Members on our side of the aisle to see what we can do to bring about better cooperation.

we will continue to work together in a bipartisan fashion to conduct the oversight that is necessary

we have not had cooperation from the Administration in terms of producing important documents that we need to review

I thank Chairwoman Miller for bringing this legislation forward and for the hard work of both herself and Congressman Brady on this issue, and I rise in support of the Academic Competition Resolution of 2013. This resolution establishes an…

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

The preservation of free and fair competition, however, is critical to a free market.

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.