Gary Palmer

I supported H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which would create a moratorium on any funding for Planned Parenthood, as well as H.R. 3504, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which provides greater protection for infants that survive the abortion procedure. …

I supported the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 (NDAA), and look forward to working with President Trump to put a focus on a strong military, which is essential to the success of our nation. It is vital that we fund our military so that our national security is not at risk.

Free markets work if we allow them to work. Our energy sector alone could create tens of thousands of new jobs overnight if government would lift unnecessary burdens on developers. We have enormous energy resources with trillions of barrels of oil, trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, and enough coal to last for more than 400 years. These are resources that could drive economic growth for the next decade, which government has refused to use in the past. According to the Bureau of Land Management, the United States literally has more oil available than the entire world has used in the last 100 years.

The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right that must be protected from executive overreach and from those who would impose limits on the types of arms law abiding citizens are allowed to possess. It is unreasonable to think that eliminating the rights of law abiding citizens will do anything stop gun violence. The Gun Owners of America and the NRA have given me their highest ratings defending the Second Amendment.

I am opposed to amnesty for illegal immigrants. I signed the FAIR Congressional Task Force’s No-Amnesty pledge to “oppose legislation that would grant any form of work authorization to illegal aliens.” The first steps to any reform of America’s immigration system will have to be securing our borders and enforcing current immigration law.

I joined with fellow members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in calling for President Obama to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Mr. Koskinen repeatedly gave misleading and false testimony to Congress, and failed to preserve evidence related to the troubling scandal in which various conservative nonprofit organizations were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for exercising their right to freedom of speech. You can view my remarks at the Oversight and Government Reform Committee press conference by clicking here.

I am grateful to each and every one of our veterans, both in Alabama and throughout America. Our national anthem calls America the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave.’ A popular rephrasing of that is that America is ‘Land of the free because of the brave.’ It remains free because brave citizens choose to join our armed forces and serve their country at all costs.