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We want to thank you for the job that Homeland Security did do.

We will be hopefully working on immigration reform.

Your story is not only inspirational, it gives us hope that we can choose the right decisions in life.

We have a responsibility to make sure they are safe. The system failed in your case.

If you do not mind me just commenting quickly, there is an undermining of trusts between governments and citizens when the government has custody of a child and the relatives are not notified.

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield to my friend from Virginia, the majority leader, for the purposes of inquiring about the schedule for the week to come.

I thank the gentleman for his observation. If I can, there is some irony in the gentleman's response. We've been talking about two items: one, the going to conference on the budget, which does, in fact, deal with prospective spending, a…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. I want to say I have a lot of respect, as the gentleman knows and I have expressed on this floor, for Mr. Ryan. I think Mr. Ryan is a very able and dedicated and conscientious Member of this House. I…

I thank the majority leader for the information on the business for next week. I would observe that he and I cochaired, the honorary cochairs, with John Lewis, of course, the chair, our leader, along with Terri Sewell, Spencer Bachus, and…

I rise to claim the time in opposition to this amendment even though I'm not opposed. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank Congressman Paulsen for his work on this bill. I support his amendment with the sense of Congress to encourage international cooperation with regard to cybersecurity whenever possible under this bill. Given that cyber threats are…

I rise to claim the time in opposition even though I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

First, I would like to thank Congressman Barton for his work on the bill. You've made the bill stronger, and we want to make sure that there is no perception that people's privacies are being violated. I support Congressman Barton's …

I just want to thank the gentlelady from Texas for her hard work on this bill, and I support this amendment.

First thing, I want to thank the ranking member, Mr. Thompson, and I want to thank Mr. McCaul and Mr. Rogers for coming together. That's what we're elected to do, to come together in a bipartisan way and to deal with difficult issues. And…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 288, nays 127, not voting 17, as follows…

Mr. Chair, I rise to claim time in opposition, even though I am not opposed to the amendment. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.