We had an interesting 2 weeks out of this building, and sadly my home State of Wisconsin made the news again, in an effort to remove not just any person here illegally but somebody who had broken the law, an abuser, somebody who under…

During a committee hearing I attended yesterday, immigration was a topic that was brought up and it seemed apparent to me that the party on the other side of the aisle didn't understand why we have immigration laws. First of all, it is a…

I will point out one more time the perverse incentives of our welfare state. I will just mention one type right now: Section 42, low-income housing. Section 42 low-income housing is very generous to property developers, who wind up only…

After returning from our districts, Mr. Speaker, it is time to bring to the Chair's attention a variety of issues which we have come across over the weekend and issues that the minority party has brought up. The first issue I bring up is…

Today, I call upon the Trump administration to abandon the drastic Biden-Harris 14(c) rule. The 14(c) rule is with regard to allowing certain people with handicaps to work for under minimum wage. I have toured many work centers or shelter…

I think it is important to hear from legislators on the experiences they had before this week as they toured their district and as they talked to normal people to see whether their concerns and observations squared with those of the people…

Last weekend when I was home I saw a very good guy who was recently married. He already has two children, and he was happy because he was buying a new house. He had to save up money for a down payment to do it. The thing I noticed, though…

I will discuss the biggest highlight of the Trump administration so far, and that is what he has done at the border. We have gone from having over 300,000 people a month trying to get into this country to under 8,000 in February. That…

We just got done with a very interesting week in which this House passed a budget bill, and now we proceed actually to the more difficult process in which, sometime over the next 4 months, we plan on passing both the reconciliation bill…

I think I have to address some of the things that I think are out of line or misspoke with regard to the other party today. First of all, I want to point out there are not a lot of details in this budget. The budget has a lot of top-line…

One more time, remember, America has to know that 26 percent of every Social Security dollar, 26 percent of every new tank, 20 percent of every new education dollar is borrowed, at a time where interest costs are going up.

Well, certainly if Social Security is cut, and Medicaid, we’ll have to see about that.

I have already spoken on the very significant hearing we had in the subcommittee regarding what is normally called welfare on Tuesday. There is another point I would like to make. In that hearing, it came out that, while it varies from…

I would like to highlight an underpublicized but important hearing that was held today. First of all, however, I would like to make one more time the point to my colleagues--because I recently heard one of the Senators grotesquely abusing…

Now, I am going to talk about the hearing we had earlier today and what I think is probably, next to the out-of- control immigration system, the biggest crisis that we face, and that is our welfare system and a huge marriage penalty…

As we wrap up this week, we will go home. If it were me, I would read books or read various topics. Last night, I saw a book I read many years ago and am going to read again. It is called: ``Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent…

It seems like every day there has been such good news coming out of the White House. It is easy to lose track of some of the executive orders coming from President Trump, but I would like to bring attention to one today. Once this…

There has been so much in the news in the last 2 weeks, it is hard to know where to start. I will cover a couple issues that the mainstream media has picked up on, though not done the best job uncovering, and one issue that made a huge…

It is always enjoyable to speak to Bible Week and always enjoyable for Doug Lamborn to give me a couple of minutes. National Bible Week, of course, begins every year on Thanksgiving and continues for the week after Thanksgiving. One of the…

I had an interesting conversation today with someone who deals with people in the lower economic classes. It was an interesting conversation because it was along the same theme that I often speak about behind this podium. That is the…

I will address the Biden administration's treatment of community rehabilitation providers. I think many people would be aware of them as a place for people with some disabilities, perhaps Down syndrome, whatever, to work because their…

Obviously, we are about to begin a new session, and one more time I would like to review what I think are some of the major mistakes that this body has committed over the last 50 or 60 years that we should be revisiting now, now that it is…

What difference does it make if I am one-eighth Polish? How is that ever going to come into play on anything?

You are going down a dangerous path in which forever you want people identified where their ancestry comes from.

It has been almost 2 months since Congress has reconvened. Certainly, a lot of things have taken place back home, things in the news that are a little bit shocking and ought to be commented on. The first thing I would like to point…