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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 19, 2019

There are more than 17,000 migrants in Customs and Border Protection custody along our Southwest Border in facilities designed to hold 4,000.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 19, 2019

Seventeen times House Democrats have rejected immediate humanitarian border aid.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 19, 2019

Even the liberal New York Times Editorial Board, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are calling on House Democrats to act.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 19, 2019

Unfortunately, our Majority has denied the House multiple opportunities to fund the needed supplemental humanitarian assistance.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 19, 2019

The situation at the Southwest Border is beyond a crisis.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

In Louisiana, the state that I'm proud to represent, we have 49 programs state-wide.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

As well-intentioned as the diversion programs are, and the drug court is something I support, I've seen it work very well...

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

Madam Chair, I appreciate the opportunity to bring up this amendment today. This amendment is pretty simple. In division E, section 106 has a provision that says that no funds in this act or any other act may be used to carry out any…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

When accidents happen, we must ask hard questions and demand that aviation stakeholders do the same.

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

I am, once again, very, very sorry for your loss. Anything we do that loses sight that this is about people, it is about lives lost, it is about safety, is a distraction.

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

The reason we have such a safe system is that past Congresses and administrations of both parties have pushed partisanship aside and worked together to improve the safety of our system.

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

If we don't work to understand these factors, we are not doing everything we can to keep the flying public safe.

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: In division E, strike section 106. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 436, the…

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

The difficulties in drug courts, in reality, as compared to the programs that are created by, passed by bureaucrats...

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

By the latest estimate, last year opioids took the lives of over 70,000 Americans.

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

We are all committed to ensuring that automated aircraft systems provide the safety benefits they are supposed to.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

Only with a substantial increase in Federal support and a national commitment to expanding community-based treatment will we have even the basic tools to combat this epidemic.

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Jun 18, 2019

Madam Chairwoman, I just heard comments from folks saying that Congress needs to step in. The Transportation Committee should look at this and act, and perhaps propose reorganization legislation or studies, and other things. And I hate to…

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