Honorable Lamar Smith
United States Representative, Texas, Republican
Representative Smith, of the Twenty-First District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representative in 1986. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1982 and as Bexar County, Texas, Commissioner from 1982 to 1985. He is the Ranking Republican Member of the House Judiciary Committee and also sits on the Homeland Security Committee and the Science and Technology Committee. The following is from the February 26, 2009, House floor debate on H.R. 1106, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009. Our country has fallen into a serious economic recession, a recession…
