The writers of the Constitution, led by James Madison, actually wanted to circumscribe executive power.

This bill would clarify that no Federal employee, including the President or Vice President of the United States, may interfere with or retaliate against a whistleblower for sharing information with Congress.

the more we can be specific, the more people get the value of the treaty.

I think the United States has to obviously assess how much risk are we willing to take.

I thank my good friend, the distinguished chairwoman of our full committee, for yielding, and I thank my good friend, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Congresswoman from the District of Columbia, who soon I hope will have the right to vote on…

I rise on behalf of Ms. Bass, the author of this legislation, the Young African Leaders Initiative Act of 2021. The chairman has described the bill. This is an important piece of legislation, as we help try to nourish and develop the next…

I thank, again, my good friend Mr. Meeks, the distinguished chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Mr. McCaul, the ranking member; and my good friend from Missouri (Mrs. Wagner) for their support on this bipartisan effort. We cannot…

Well, yes, although every dollar you're invested in the IRS has a return on it. It's not a sunk cost.

We are going to insist on compliance with the law.

I mean, you know, if you look at the private sector, I can't think of many successful companies where the CIO does not directly report to the CEO.

it's the Crimea Annexation Non-Recognition Act.

We need to deliver better roads and bridges with as much speed as we can.

We must address bottlenecks and gridlock on existing roadways.

What we just heard requires you to forget a blatant history of exclusion and discrimination.

I am going to assert that the Founders severely limited the role of the President as Commander in Chief.

We do not live in that same world today, but, my God, have we strayed far afield of the original intent.

My view is more of the strict constructionist point of view about what Article I means and what Article II means.

We have never made partisanship a condition of statehood.

This is a wrong based in race, based in very sorted history that is long overdue to be righted.

The absurdity of the arguments being propounded on the other side of the aisle are all subterfuge.

Assumptions are dangerous. Behavior changes. We can't make decisions on that basis.

I grieve at what's happened to the party of Lincoln, the party of emancipation, the party of 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

This issue today is really about Democratic unfinished business.

200 bills have been introduced in 43 states since the election last November to restrict, repress, suppress the vote.

I thank my distinguished friend for the wonderful work he is doing as our new chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. And I thank my friend, Mr. McCaul, the distinguished ranking member. Madam Speaker, this is an important…