Migrants are giving up their life savings, mortgaging their homes and farms, and handing over their children to smugglers, because they are falsely being told that children are 'visas' to get into this country.

I am also concerned by the partisan preconceptions surrounding the hearing title.

It passed out of the Transportation Committee--I will say it again, the committee with disaster experience, with disaster jurisdiction--passed out of that committee unanimously. Mr. Speaker, at the end of the day, what we all need to be…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, the gentlewoman from Missouri, and everybody working on this. We have had one of the most intense periods of disasters…

Mr. Speaker, let me just say, at the end of the day, what we need to be doing is we need to be looking at this through the eyes of the disaster victims. We need to be looking at this through their eyes. Having a bill that codifies under…

We have a $100 billion backlog.

Unfortunately if you don't give time-sensitive funding to these projects, many of them will just slip by the wayside.

At the end of the day, we all want the same thing--strong, resilient and affordable infrastructure that can protect residents and businesses as well as the environment and economy--while making sound fiscal decisions.

I think that is highly offensive, whether it is due process or not, as a technical matter.

This threat is real, and it is personal.

It is an undisputable fact that in 2016 the Russian Government carried out a concerted, sophisticated operation to meddle in our Presidential election.

I think we have begun a process that is going to take time to build the confidence in State and local election officials.

Voters deserve to know that they will be able to vote when they show up.

I urge the White House to accept the intelligence community's unanimous conclusions about 2016 meddling.

It is very important for the people in this country to believe in the elections that we have.

I think of it from a war on terrorism point of view, and it took us almost 15 years to develop the capacity to do what we have done here since 9/11.

I believe that it is bipartisan, that we want to protect our elections and protect our democracy, and make sure that every vote matters.

We must set aside party politics and work together to improve election security.