Thank you for working with the committee last year as we have an, obviously, high degree of member interest.

Cross-border travel and the efficient flow of goods and people across the border are vital to the communities I am privileged to represent.

I will focus my comments today on our Northern Border, since our border with Canada is often somewhat forgotten in these discussions.

Why would it not be in the discretion of the President to take action to recognize that perhaps since we have limited funds that Congress is giving us, why not use those limited funds to go after criminals and those who pose a danger to…

Constitutions should not be seen as never changing. That they should not be like a child in clothes that the child then grows out of and needs new clothes.

The fact is the Constitution, which has gone on for many years and is a great document, was not written by infallible human beings.

The Constitution makes clear that all legislative power is 'vested' in the Congress, Article 1.

Congress has refused to take up a single piece of gun safety legislation since New Town.

The President took executive action to clarify what the private sale of guns are. And to help close that loophole and the President did it because Congress failed to act.

Mr. Speaker, on December 22, 2015, Zachary Paul-Allen Greenough, a veteran of the U.S. Army, lost his life to an accidental overdose of heroin in the city of West Haven, Connecticut. The press accounts after his death, unfortunately, tell…

As we continue to work to build our global capacity to combat terror financing and money laundering, we should consider and evaluate U.S. policy responses to determine whether our counter-terrorist financing tools are capable of…

The way I understand perpetuity, that is forever, right? That is perpetuity.

the reason I am here before you is for the last 2 years I have been trying to work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to bring some resolution, some assistance, some help, some recognition.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We are fortunate to have Members representing border districts--one on the Northern Border and one on the Southern Border--leading the discussion today.

Attacking this budget request, without producing an alternative, requires almost no work at all, and even less courage.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Frankel), my good friend and a member of the committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio), my good friend and ranking member. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman, the ranking member of the subcommittee, for yielding, and I…