What Steve Scalise said, and what was done

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman, my colleague and friend from Texas, for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill. Madam Speaker, we should all be here today to express our strong support for this important piece of legislation to properly and fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, including, yes, the people who actually are tasked with carrying out our immigration laws.”

“Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez, a 15-year-old, was shot and killed while trying to protect his mother from an attempted rape by an illegal in Kentucky. The killer was a Mexican national.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Minnesota for yielding and all the applause coming from the other side. Look, Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this important bill to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security.”

“Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from Oklahoma, the great chairman of the Appropriations Committee, for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of Congressman Ciscomani's bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.”

“Let's talk about what times we are in. Some people want to think that we are at a September 10 mentality, a pre-September 11 mentality. We are at a heightened state of alert right now.”

“Mr. Speaker, I move that the message of the President be referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered printed.”

“Mr. Speaker, ``let the good times roll''; ``laissez les bons temps rouler.'' Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Wisconsin for yielding, and I thank Chip Roy for bringing the SAVE America Act to the House floor.”

“Their own leaders have referred to it as ``Jim Crow.'' It is not the first time that they have used that phrase. They used that when the State of Georgia put an ID requirement on voting.”

“Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of the SPEED Act and the work that Chairman Westerman and a bipartisan coalition of Members of Congress have done to bring a bill to the floor that actually focuses on letting us build things in America again, and, by the way, to lower the cost of those projects that we want to bring.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and thank one of the longest-serving members of Team Scalise, a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a native of Louisiana's 1st Congressional District, Mitchell Shea.”

“Mr. Speaker, today I rise to recognize a man whose dedication, steadiness, and wisdom have shaped not only my work in this Chamber but the work of this institution itself.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Arizona for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, we still have heavy hearts. We are still mourning the loss of our friend, Charlie Kirk, who was such an inspirational leader to millions across this country.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Smith for not just yielding but for his leadership in getting us to this point. Mr. Speaker, we are at the precipice of the new golden age of America.”

“If somebody can afford it, they can go to a private school. If that low-income family can't afford it, we are finally giving them a lifeline in this bill, Mr.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Kentucky for yielding. Mr. Speaker, a little over a week ago, America witnessed a horrific act of political violence that goes against everything the United States stands for.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend, our conference chair (Mrs. McClain) for managing this time on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, a lot of people come up here, and they talk about trying to get America's fiscal house in order.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Missouri for his leadership and getting us to this point. So many other chairmen will talk about that, too. I rise in strong support, Mr.”

“We also need to get started with the reconciliation process. The process is where eleven of our committees in the House will go to work to start making improvements in so many areas to get America back on track.”

“Here we are again on the eve of another potential shutdown, and this Republican majority said we are not going to let that happen. In fact, this Republican President Donald Trump said we are not going to let that happen either.”

“Let's actually get our work done so we can start a 12-bill appropriations process that moves through the Senate too where you can actually have a negotiation between two sides of the aisle, again, something we haven't seen in a long time but is long past due.”

“Madam Speaker, I move that the message of the President be referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered printed.”

“Madam Chair, I thank Mr. Schweikert for yielding and I thank the gentleman from California's Central Valley for his passion. He has been a vocal advocate for the things that are necessary to keep these programs like Medicaid strengthened.”

“Madam Chairwoman, I thank my friend from Arizona for yielding to me for 1 minute. Madam Chair, I rise in strong support, first of all, of this budget resolution.”

“Republicans are going to defend the ability for the next billionaire company maybe, but right now it is a dream in somebody's basement. This is what is great about America.”

“Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor and thank one of the longest serving members of Team Scalise, a son of Covington, Georgia, and a proud Ole Miss alum, Bart Reising.”