Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to come before the House during this rules debate on this package of bipartisan bills that have been worked on for two Congresses now and that address a number of issues that I think Members on…

Scapegoating the victims and building walls is simply not the solution to our border security issues.

Without that access, and without us being able to stop those people from entering into the country, we will never be able to secure the border.

Seventy-five pounds of marijuana, almost $8,000 of brown heroin, 5 illegal border crossers with unknown intentions, and 11 more illegals who got away.

This is unacceptable, and I can guarantee that the drug cartels using the tunnel did not care about the welfare of that species.

In the course of just one evening 2 weeks ago, that's what I witnessed along a small portion of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector.

We need to ensure that our environmental laws do not compromise Border Patrol's ability to detect, identify, track, and respond to cross-border violations.

They're not out of the woods with respect to Russian interference in their government.

I think that is an important point. Almost all strategic discussions, certainly strategic arms control negotiations revolve around the bilateral threat between the United States and Russia.

This has been a continuing pattern of behavior that creates a threat to the United States that we have to respond to.

the situation in Venezuela, which is rapidly deteriorating under the brutal Maduro dictatorship.

That threat is primarily driving the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review for our country.

It remains so today.

Last year, the Senate ratified the Montenegro Accession Treaty to have Montenegro join NATO.

I want to add my voice to Senator Blumenthal and his concerns about what is happening in Syria.

Colombia has, I think, a grave concern.

The principal driver behind us making modification to the course, it was not about lowering attrition, it was about making students more successful to complete the course.

I think the taxpayer deserves to have them out, performing their job.