U.S. House of Representatives
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 00:00
His 15-year sentence is absurd, and his continuing incarceration is inhumane.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 00:00
The SOS Act builds on legislation I have introduced since 2001, including the Andean Region Contractor Accountability Act to prohibit military contracting in Colombia and neighboring nations.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 00:00
Mr. Speaker, those who say that the border is secure and the violence is contained in Mexico are living in a blissful state of ignorance.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 00:00
I rise to inform my colleagues of yet more beatings and arrests of opposition leaders by the Castro dictatorship in Cuba.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 00:00
Nearly 2,000 semiautomatic weapons were blindly sent into the hands of criminal narcoterrorists in Mexico, and people died because of this operation, at least two Americans and who knows how many Mexican nationals. Thousands of guns are still unaccounted
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 00:00
Mr. Speaker, in the dangerous border region between Mexico and Texas, in the year 2008, outlaws from Mexico were caught smuggling marijuana into the United States, and they were caught by the Border Patrol agents.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 00:00
If these jobs are the job creators the President promised us that they would be, then why wouldn't we have a public ceremony highlighting the signing of the FTAs?
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 00:00
Last Friday Laura Pollan, leader of the opposition group Ladies in White, died following another beating by Castro's thugs.
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 00:00
I simply cannot vote for an agreement given the alarming level of anti-union violence in Colombia, which in 2010 had more union worker assassinations than the rest of the world combined.
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 00:00
In each case, I apply the following test: Will the agreement help the American economy and American workers?