I assure her we will followup on that because there is no language prohibiting such payments.

there are a number of constituents in all of our respective offices who have not heard, who have confused instructions, have not received payments

if that trust is damaged, compliance will fall and that will hurt the ability of the U.S. Government to fund itself

the relationship between the investment in IT and the capability of the IRS to do its job on behalf of the American people

immigration rewards and enriches America; it doesn't detract from it

when somebody contacts our office, it means everything else has failed

I've long led congressional efforts asking the IRS and the Department of Justice to investigate the NRA and its CEO Wayne LaPierre.

curbing the number of refugees, people fleeing violence, is a very un-American thing from this Member's point of view

I would just simply close by reminding everybody that bad planning exacerbated greatly the severity and duration of this pandemic. And if we have learned anything, we have learned that we need to plan, we need to have a plan, and that is…

Forty dollars to $31,000 for the same vial... how do we explain going from $40 to $31,000 for the same vial, with the same efficacy and impact on a patient, other than it got reclassified as an orphan drug?

That is an illegal annexation and we are not going to recognize it.

I thank my friend, Mrs. Miller, for her kind remarks, and I certainly know they will be appreciated by his widow, Christina. Mr. Speaker, we have no further speakers on this side, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the…

The U.S. intelligence community assessed that the Crown Prince ordered Mr. Khashoggi's murder.

There has to be an aggressive recruitment. There has be an aggressive commitment to making the Foreign Service so that it looks like America.

I want to thank Mr. Meeks for his leadership on making sure that Russia is not invited to any G7 meeting until we see Russia's behavior significantly improve.

I also want to commend Mr. Yoho for H.Res.697 on Tibet.

I particularly want to commend the H.R. 1012, Ami Bera's bill, on recognizing the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.

He was lured into that consulate under false assurances of his own personal security, where he was murdered in cold blood and dismembered by agents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. PAULA CROOM ROBINSON AND JUDY SPRAY…

It would also reaffirm and ensure that the United States is in no way enabling human rights violations.

The fact of the matter is, the Administration refused to invoke the Magnitsky Act to hold Saudi individuals accountable.

Two years ago tomorrow, my constituent and lawful U.S. resident, a journalist, mild critic of the Saudi regime--he wanted to see reform, not revolution--Jamal Khashoggi, was lured into a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, because he…

When does Congress assert itself? When do we say, that goes so far we are not going to put up with it; you will pay a heavy price?

losing, like winning, is a passing phenomenon in politics, so be comforted.

One of the sort of dirty little secrets in the Nation's capital is how little diversity there actually has been historically in our Foreign Service ranks.