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  • A Call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
    Mar 5, 2012  - I rise today to urge this body, the United States Congress, to join my constituents' call and meet my constituents' call for comprehensive immigration reform. My constituents across the ideological spectrum, from those on the right, who decry the rule of law, the undermining of the state of law and ... More
  • Remarks on H.R. 1837, The Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act
    Feb 29, 2012  - I rise today with great concern over this bill's impact on my home State and its number one resource and scarcest resource in issue, water. You know, we have an old saying in the West that ``whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.'' I think, Mr. Speaker, we're going to see some of that fi... More
  • Ensuring Quality Higher Education
    Feb 28, 2012  - Madam Chair, Congress should be the taxpayers' advocate to root out waste, fraud, and abuse wherever it occurs; and this is particularly true when it comes to student financial aid. Both of my amendments pertain to this category of making sure we have the right structure in place to in one case ince... More
  • Protecting Colorado's Water and Land
    Feb 15, 2012  - Mr. Chairman, my amendment gets to the heart of what sustains our western communities from Colorado to California to New Mexico to Montana--our water and our land. My amendment is the answer to concerns from my constituents in Colorado, outcries from farmers, from ranchers, local communities, from s... More
  • Supporting Reform Through Line-Item Veto, STOCK Act
    Feb 8, 2012  - Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Georgia for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in opposition to this structured rule. This is yet another example of this Congress' remarkable ability to take commonsense measures and churn them, ... More
  • Civilian Property Realignment Act Can Save Taxpayer Money
    Feb 6, 2012  - Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Florida for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in opposition to the structured rule. While the unemployment numbers are now at their lowest point in 3 years, the American people know that our economy is s... More
  • Protect Internet Freedom
    Jan 18, 2012  - Mr. Speaker, today many Web sites across the Internet, from Reddit to Wikipedia, have blacked out their sites in protest of a bill before this body, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its accompanying bill in the Senate, the PIPA Act. These bills threaten free discourse, free speech, and the very infra... More
  • Republicans Are Increasing Taxes on the Middle Class
    Dec 20, 2011  - These last 2 weeks have really shown us the tax-and-spend Republican Party up close. First we passed a defense authorization with over $800 million in earmarks, according to a study by Senator Claire McCaskill. Then we passed a huge omnibus spending bill that spent over $900 billion, actually increa... More
  • Defend America While Defending the Constitution
    Dec 14, 2011  - Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Rule and the underlying bill. The bill we have before us allows for the indefinite detention of terror suspects, including U.S. citizens, without being charged and without the right to a trial. If enacted, this would be the first time since the McCarthy... More
  • Sugar Loaf Bill Support Local Firefighters and the Community
    Dec 14, 2011  - Mr. Speaker, I rise today to provide a description and some color for this important bill, which passed this body last session in the 111th Congress without any objection and did not make it through the Senate last session. Well, I am proud to say that, since that point, Senate bill 278 has cleared ... More
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