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

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

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.

I am concerned about the Homeland Security as being weaponized in ways that distract from its originally intended mission.

I think what has been displayed by the committee is not who we are as a committee.

So the FDA, it's more of a legal issue of the procedure that happened than a safety issue of determining what drug is safe.

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.

My main concern is an ectopic pregnancy that if the baby is not positioned which is deadly, or if she's further along that she's saying that she is.

Your Department has become this huge forest fire, and you are consuming everything you touch.

The law also requires the FDA to respond to petitions within a 180 days, but the FDA waited roughly 14 years and nearly 3 years to respond to citizens' petitions challenging FDA approval and deregulation of chemical abortion drugs.

Whatever our challenge along the Southern Border, it didn't start 2 years ago, it has been here.

We absolutely need to take care of them.

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

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.

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

Will you help remove some of these obstacles, like having to call the District of Columbia to get rid of a guy that has been convicted of 10 kilos of methamphetamine?

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

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Vladimir Kara-Murza