We could have just said, we are going to expand Medicaid, forget about the rest of the Affordable Care Act, right?

Well, today, I am telling you, there it is right there, everybody has to pay 230 percent more because of ObamaCare.

So the cost of that, though, was those 85 percent, who were already covered, have to pay more than twice as much to pick up that incremental benefit of the 6 percent more people.

As you will recall, the President said, you know, if you like your plan, you can keep it, which is clearly a falsehood.

The theory of the Affordable Care Act was to provide universal coverage for people, including those who had preexisting conditions...

Are they really better off? Do you really believe that?

Madam Speaker, I rise today to ask my Republican colleagues, who continue to vote against reopening the government, how they respond to their constituents who are suffering during this inhumane shutdown. For example, my office was…

I just got off the phone with the President. I told him we were talking about a 3-week CR. All of us believe that if we had 3 weeks with the government open and all the discord coming from a shutdown, that we could find a way forward to…

Mr. Speaker, the murderous regime in Tehran has a very clear policy: death to America, death to Israel. That is why Iran trains, arms, and funds militia groups to fight its proxy wars throughout the Middle East. In Iraq, these militias…

Mr. Speaker, that was his sister, who could talk about him. So that is why there is urgency to this thing. And, you know, go down there. Like Congressman Griffith mentioned, this is just a start. The $5.7 billion, it is a start to really…

Mr. Speaker, specifically about the drones, we were talking to one of the agents, and he said: Tell me one drone that has ever run down an illegal alien and put him in handcuffs? Drones don't do that. Electronic devices alert you. Like the…

Mr. Speaker, it is the right thing to do. Now is the time. I applaud the gentleman for having these pictures. This brings it to life.

Mr. Speaker, exactly. That is where it stopped. You know, and in talking with these agents, who are drastically understaffed, they can't do--they can't chase down everybody that comes. I will tell you, every agent we talked with had no…

MREs, which was food that would last for weeks. And I guess the other thing is these are professionals. They are armed. The rations that they carry out, they are planning to stay there for a long time, until they get the drugs over, and…

I did, Congressman Gohmert. And to see what they sell, bullets for the drug-runners to carry out.

I have never seen bullets sold like that, and this is what we are dealing with. This is what we are dealing with.

Mr. Speaker, right. All along were bottles of water. We walked up on a sleeping bag. We walked up on all types of----

Mr. Speaker, I was there along with him, and I just wanted to emphasize the statement--I don't think I will ever forget-- from an angel mom who said: Congressman Norman, a wall won't stop everyone. No wall will stop no one. And put that…