The best way to make this surge of children temporary is to pass an emergency supplemental and undertake a substantial deterrent strategy.

I am particularly concerned about the condition and care of the young women and girls who are being detained along our border.

These children will be sent back.

This is a refugee crisis that we are seeing along our southern border.

The rule of law must be restored.

If we want an extraordinary response to an extraordinary problem, why don't we consider using the National Guard?

More money may well be needed to deal with the consequences of this crisis, but it does not address the causes of the problem, and that is what is troubling to me.

As a global humanitarian leader, the United States must respond to this crisis in a thoughtful and calculated manner thoroughly consistent with international refugee law and American principles of due process.

Congress must immediately increase funding to ORR for fiscal year 2014 so that the influx of children at the border is not paid for by the refugees from Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, and Ukraine and elsewhere who have been generously…

I think all of us can agree that we are facing a humanitarian crisis of the first magnitude.

This is not a complete plan, to me. What are missing are three things.

The United States has both a security and moral obligation to help resolve this emergency.

We cannot sit back and let this situation grow worse, as it does day by day.

I do not understand, Madam Chairman, why Medicare does not say, any hospital or provider that does not publish their data by July 1, 2014, we do not pay anymore.

Medicare ought to say, if you do not have Electronic Medical Records that are interoperable by, you know, July 1, 2014, we do not pay you anymore.

I believe the U.S. can and should be a leader in ending one of the biggest obstacles to not only U.S. national security but also global stability, development, prosperity, and human rights for all.

This is why I am proud to be one of the original sponsors of the bipartisan International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA, S. 2307).

The International Violence Against Women Act--IVAWA--would ensure that the U.S. will continue to take a leadership role in combatting these problems.