But in my meetings with law enforcement, I know the Secret Service and U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement have been dealing with many cases.

It is in the Constitution that we have the right to do that, the duty to do that.

My view, which is backed up by language in the U.S. Constitution, is that gold and silver coins are money.

I am pleased to commend the House Appropriations Committee for passing 11 of the 12 appropriations bills out of committee. All the bills except Homeland Security have passed committee. Here on the House floor we have passed four of those…

I just want to applaud your continued efforts there to bring fairness to the cities around this country.

What we started doing as a society is picking a group, the group de jour, and you know, their rights trump everybody else's.

That is not how America was designed, and I think we have a real duty to make sure that we don't go down that pathway.

I am just going to remind you of a couple things that were brought up at the time.

I just want to encourage you to continue this deregulation, get these impediments out of the way for Americans in rural areas, as well as cities.

These regulations and restrictions, I think they are well intended by the other side, but they are hurting the people that need these investment startup dollars.

I want to add my appreciation for your leadership in proposing an expansive loan rule aperture.

my mother fled a communist country, Cuba. At least here we have a process where people can have their grievances and their issues brought to Congress