Jim Sensenbrenner

Due to severe illness, I missed today's vote series. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 676, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 677, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 678, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 679, and ``yea'' on rollcall No…

I am pleased that H.R. 38, as amended, includes the Fix NICS Act. I have long supported the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. NICS is about saving lives and protecting people from harm by preventing guns from…

There is nothing more I can add, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Chairman, I support all of these bills.

Well, Mr. Attorney General, the day before the committee marked up this bill, the Justice Department was actively lobbying members of the committee to oppose the measure, stating that it would dismantle section 702.

I have been waiting 20 years for a President and an administration that would enforce current immigration laws.

Why can't the USA Liberty Act be the compromise? Can't we allow the intelligence community to stop terrorists while protecting the constitutional rights of Americans?

I believe the act, as passed--and it had been reauthorized with an even larger vote last time--is constitutional.

Jim Sensenbrenner thinks that's an outrageous invasion of your privacy.

I think we have to blame the Air Force for not doing what was necessary to let the system be able to identify this gentleman.

I do not think we can blame the law for the failure of these, the transaction of the shooter to be identified and the sale being denied.

I was the one who was insistent in putting the instant check system and the Brady Bill, which was passed and signed by President Clinton in 1993.

It seems clear that a prohibition on the instate sale of out-of-State pork from pigs born to sows housed in gestation stalls or any other housing system that might be outlawed is a restraint of trade of interstate commerce, and therefore a…

NPPC is supporting Congressman Sensenbrenner's H.R. 2887, the No Regulation without Representation Act, to stop such State intrusions on the sovereignty of other States.

One of the constitutional obligations and duties of the Congress is to do oversight.

What I can say is, I favor tribal sovereignty, and if the problem is within the tribes, then the members of the tribes are going to have to deal with that and fix it.

As the chief sponsor of this legislation, as well as the chief sponsor of the original Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, I rise in support of this legislation and hope that it is swiftly enacted. The Adam Walsh Child…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte) for yielding me this time. Rapid DNA is a promising new technology that allows for the almost immediate DNA analysis of an arrestee. Unlike standard DNA practices, which require sending…

The government must discourage, not encourage, sanctuary policies and practices.

I know that, in my district, there has been at least one real, major tragedy where a van of family going to church ended up being hit by a drunk driver and some, but not all, of them were killed, which was a family tragedy that could have…

The past 8 years witness the Obama administration's deliberate undermining of our immigration laws.

I guess this shows that we Republicans are not like the Rockettes.

You know the whole issue of sanctuary cities is something that is very disturbing because it is an attempt by those jurisdictions to nullify Federal law and to say that Federal law does not apply in the sanctuary city.

I guess I can say that robbing a bank is a Federal offense, and I do not think that State and local law enforcement wait for the FBI to come to respond to the bank and try to catch the people who are committing a Federal felony in the…

Under President Obama, it was widely understood that asylum officers should get to yes on credible fear determinations...