I would ask unanimous consent to submit the following letter from the Heath Association of New York State which highlights the success of comprehensive legislation in New York to eliminate surprise billings and the benefits it's created…

during my time in the New York State Assembly tackling the issue of surprise billing was priority for me

Thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this very important hearing.

we cannot exclude LGBTQ potential parents from this.

I think it is important that we remain as a country with a welcoming message to the international community.

Many of the screening and vetting protocols that Congress has implemented over the past 2 decades stem from lessons learned after the 9/11 terror attacks.

However broad Executive Actions, such as the President's travel ban, are not the solution. In fact, they are counterproductive and make us less safe.

For the past 2 years, the Trump administration has not taken any substantive steps to address the agency's startling number of vacancies.

We need to be able to do all of this from staffing up CBP to enhancing screening protocols without unnecessarily burdening lawful travel or infringing upon an individual's right to privacy.

We must also recognize that border security is a much broader and more nuanced topic than what the current debate has allowed for.

Madam President, I will be speaking about rules changes in a minute, but I heard my friend from Tennessee when he said we will be faced with a terrible choice. I would simply say that that choice is being foisted on us by Leader McConnell…

I have every confidence that if my friend from Georgia were running the Senate, we wouldn't be in this pickle. I yield to him. H.R. 268

What you have coming from Central America are women, children, families.

It is physically impossible to shut down a 1,900-mile border.

There is a crisis, 4,000 apprehensions in one day 100,000 apprehensions in a month on the southern border.

There is no amount of border security you can put on our southern border that is going to stop it.

I think is the exact wrong thing to do in this circumstance.

But to sort of have a temper tantrum and say we're picking up all our marbles and leaving, that's the worst thing we could possibly do.