Mr. Speaker, in closing, I want to read something that Ronald Reagan said back in 1982 on an issue when they were having similar issues […]
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez: FAIR and allies “want to take our immigration policies back to the 1920s”
It is like DW Griffith might rise up from his grave to film “Rebirth of a Nation–the Sequel” because FAIR [Federation Against American Immigration Reform] […]
Rep. Matt Cartwright: Health care tort reform runs afoul of the Magna Carta
Mr. Chairman, here we are dealing with some amount of irony with HR 1215. The year 1215 was the year the Magna Carta was signed, […]
Rep. Steve King: Magna Carta wasn’t concerned with medical malpractice claims
I thought the gentleman from Pennsylvania’s look at HR 1215 was a really deft way to focus on this and speak about the Magna Carta, […]
Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay: Evoking MLK, Philando Castile’s shooter “did not act alone”
I will close with this: a brief teaching from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the occasion of another needless tragedy, the police […]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee: Obamacare fulfilled Harry Truman’s promise
In 1949, Harry Truman became the first sitting President to propose universal healthcare for all Americans as part of the “Fair Deal.” On March 23, […]
Rep. Lloyd Doggett: 1990s welfare reform “became welfare for Republican governors”
I believe that we need to be working together to try to find genuine solutions and that working together is not just here in this […]
Rep. Ted Poe: History of Pakistan’s support for terrorist groups goes back to 1980s
There is a laundry list of evidence of Pakistan’s support for terrorist groups, and I think a little more history is in order because this […]
Rep. Jaren Huffman: Trump wrong on the Hoover Dam, big projects take time
In this statement, Rep. Jared references a Washington Post fact-check which can be found here. A couple of weeks ago, President Trump claimed that projects […]
Rep. Karen Bass: 1990s was the first time women abused drugs as much as men
Ironically, in the 1990s, when the crack cocaine epidemic hit, that was the first time that women started using drugs equal to men. It hadn’t […]