We have a history of being a bipartisan committee that work on solutions.

The President's fiscal year 2024 budget requests $103.2 billion for the Department of Homeland Security to carry out its mission of safeguarding the homeland and the American people, while preserving our values.

I just want us to get back, Mr. Chairman.

I think that your agency is not enforcing the law, Mr. Mayorkas, and I think that you can do a better job.

Let me say for the record that in each time that the request for increasing the numbers in the Border Patrol, Democrats on this committee have always supported the increase, it has been my Republican colleagues who oppose the increase.

We absolutely need to take care of them.

You and I pledge that going forward, we will make every effort to get back to the civility that this committee has been known for ever since we have been in existence.

A comprehensive immigration policy will get us to where we need to be.

that is a double standard. That is partisan politics and that is Washington for you.

we know that earlier this week DHS released its national encounters by month.

March marks the 12th straight month that we have had more than 200,000 encounters

That is a double standard. That is partisan politics and that is Washington for you.

we have gotten to the point of the language that we are using is not the kind of language that, historically, we as Members of this committee, we have used.

It is deeply frustrating that the subcommittee is being told--six years after a statutory deadline--that it will be another year before FDA issues a final rule on medical gases.

I was really heartbroken to hear that you didn't understand the strategy of the cartel.

I must say, everything I have seen from your Department says just the opposite, and I stand to differ with you on that one.

everything I have seen from your Department says just the opposite, and I stand to differ with you on that one.

Morale is pretty low and these agents are being overwhelmed emotionally and physically.