Pramila Jayapal

Let me just say how pleased I am that we are on the same page, that disaster relief funding should go to disaster relief; it should not go to expanding detention beds, which are already oversubscribed. So I hope that the other side will be…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ____. None of the funds made…

All of us, whether African American, people of color, immigrants, we are not other categories of people. We are not somebody else. We are America, all of us. The terrible truth is that racism and xenophobia escalates when racism and white…

I am prepared to close. I have no further speakers. Mr. Speaker, I would just say that we are incredibly proud to be, hopefully, passing this legislation tonight with such bipartisan support and reminding the world that the United States…

I appreciated my colleague from Texas's remarks on our trip to the border.

May I ask how much time I have left. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Washington has 1 minute remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 69, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $12,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000)''…

I have a bill that I am working on now that would not allow donations to members of a committee where there is an interest at stake.

I would urge Chairman Goodlatte to hold hearings on that very important topic.

I do not believe that there is any Republican or Democrat that would want this kind of trauma to occur. But I ask my Republican colleagues to stand up for who we are as a country. Do not allow America to become this in the eyes of the…

But, in fact, this locks 82 percent of Dreamers out of citizenship, while dismantling the family immigration system and revoking approved petitions for 3 million family members who have paid fees and waited for years. This is not a…

I thank the gentleman very much and I urge support. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, add the following: SEC. ___. NOISE POLLUTION ABATEMENT AND MITIGATION. Not later…

I thank Chairman Shuster very much for accepting the amendment, and I urge support. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Holding). The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Washington…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 36, line 23, strike ``; and'' and insert a semicolon. Page 37, line 4, strike the period and insert…

I want to thank Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Johnson, and a number of Republicans that helped me to get some funds into the last budget omnibus spending bill that expands the LEAD program across the country into some of these critical areas that…

I would remind the public that the Senate Judiciary Committee literally just approved, in a 14 to 7 vote, bipartisan legislation that protects special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

I will say that I share my colleague's frustrations that this committee has turned into a bit of a theater.

Thank you so much, Chairman Diaz-Balart for having me here, Ranking Member Price, thank you, Members of the Committee for the tireless work that you have done.

There are lots of opportunities to do things that do not involve cutting Social Security

The plan here is to first, transfer trillions of dollars of wealth to the wealthiest... balloon the deficit

I am troubled by some of the statements that we heard last year, as our Republican colleagues attempted to push through--did push through--a tax plan that really benefited only the wealthiest in the country and tried to say that it…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I was very pleased that the Subcommittee included language in the 2018 omnibus that sets a clear deadline for the Department to commit to releasing the funds.

If we do not have transportation that connects to the port that helps get goods from Eastern Washington or apples or all of the things that we export from Eastern Washington in, if we do not have clear transit that connects north south, we…