Real border security cannot be achieved by building a wall on the Southern Border, blocking asylum seekers, or separating children from their parents.

The practice of impeding or metering persons outside of our borders in Mexico undermines the enforcement of immigration law.

We should not be wasting resources on fabricated threats such as a fake National Emergency.

If it is a bad policy, then change it.

What the American people have heard from the Trump administration is misleading at best.

Are we still putting children in cages?

Our whole mind-set was not to just build back, but build forward.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for no more than 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

what is the pending business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pending business is the Rushing nomination.

on Sunday, February 24, thousands of people marched in Moscow and in cities across Russia to remember Boris Nemtsov, a Russian statesman and friend of freedom who was gunned down in sight of the Kremlin walls 4 years ago. These people were…

Unfortunately, that did not come to pass, and we once again found ourselves with no alternative but to pass another short-term extension.

You all met, meet, or exceed the standards for accession and retention in the military and that you did not ask for nor would you have wanted reduced standards or special treatment.

However, I do not plan to let reauthorization become an excuse to water down regulatory requirements or diminish the overall security value of the program.

I had hoped to work collaboratively in the last Congress, as we did in 2014, to give CFATS a long-term reauthorization.

So we need to close that loophole because as a volunteer fireman myself, those public-spirited first responders did not know what they were going to until it was too late.

I look forward to hearing from the panel today about how we might improve CFATS and make sure we give DHS and the regulated community the civility and certainty of a long-term reauthorization program.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the resolution. I was in west Texas this past weekend and saw nothing to justify the President's designation of a national emergency. There…

I was extremely troubled by a report GAO released last year showing that first responders and emergency planners are still not getting the information they need to respond to an incident at a CFATS facility.