We spent a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars in the last 10 years beefing up our border security.

I do not believe that we should be threatening to shut down the Department of Homeland Security, an agency vital to our Nation's security, over disagreements with the President's policies.

It would have also reduced our budget deficits by--listen to this--nearly $200 billion over the next 10 years.

Rather than continue to spend another quarter-of-a-trillion dollars over the next 10 years, we have only spent 1 percent, not even 1 percent of that to try to say, how do we help make the lives of the people in Guatemala, El Salvador, or…

Folks on our Committee here and my staff hears me say ad nauseam, find out what works, do more of that; find out what does not work, do less of that.

The problem that has been raised here, 24,000 checks sent to a single address, IRS has changed the rules to allow only three checks to a single address or account, so message heard.

It is hard to remember that our job was to drain the swamp when we are up to our eyeballs in alligators.

A yes or no answer. Were you all present for the testimony of the first panel?

the Visa Waiver tourists support more than a half million American jobs.

The reason why so many people are coming from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to this country is because they lack hope, they lack opportunity.

Blocking or repealing the Administration's initiatives would take us backward.

it is important that they have been raised. Some of them have been addressed

Most of the people coming into the border these days are not coming from Mexico.

the deferred deportation programs would have a modest, but a net positive impact on the system.

I also think of immigration reform as a force multiplier, done right, force multiplier in its own right.

I also think we must look beyond our border and try to support efforts to address the root causes that are pushing some people to our country.

I hope that most of us can come together to do what I believe is the right thing, and that is support the passage of a clean 4-year appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security by February 27.

I think it is fair and reasonable oversight for this Committee to take.