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

In a free market economy like ours, companies are generally free to organize themselves and their assets as they see fit, including by merger.

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

Thus, antitrust laws set important limits on companies' freedom to merge with one another.

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

the hardest, toughest, dirtiest jobs

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania, the chairman of the subcommittee, for his hard work on this legislation and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) for introducing it and leading this bipartisan effort to address what I think is…

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.

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?

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.

I submit for publication the attached copy of the rules of the Committee on the Judiciary for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 113th Congress, as adopted by the Committee on January 23, 2013: Rule I. The Rules of the House of…

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…

It's now my pleasure to yield to the majority whip, the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy). Mr. McCARTHY of California. Section 2: ``The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.'' Amendment…

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 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…

This morning, for only the second time in the history of the House of Representatives, we will read aloud the full text of the Constitution of the United States. We hope this reading will inspire many more Americans to read the…

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…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 401, nays 5, not voting 25, as follows: [Roll No. 654]…

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…

To thank both the ranking member, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), for his longtime support, as well as the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren), who I'm sure will have a word to say about this as well, and also the work…

Today I am pleased that we are considering a bipartisan bill to update the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988. This bill will ensure that a law related to the handling of videotape rental information is updated to reflect the realities…

I thank the gentleman from Texas, the chairman of the committee, for his fine work on this legislation, and I rise in support of it. You know, this House has twice passed through the entire House legislation eliminating the visa lottery…

On rollcall Nos. 583 and 584, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on the Motion to Recommit and ``aye'' on final passage of H.R. 6213. ____________________