In June 2019, Representative Thompson also introduced this legislation in the House.

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To the extent this administration has a border policy, it has been an abject failure.

The President's fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security is, in a word, indefensible.

I would like to apologize to you today for the inaction of the U.S. Congress.

We have not provided you the resources you need for personnel, we have not provided you the facilities that we need, we have not provided you the court officials that you need, and our current--we have not approved a supplemental funding…

I want to apologize to you and the men and women that you serve with for these untrue remarks.

We see increased military bases, increased military ports, a dominant ice breaker fleet--when compared to America, 40 to 2.

This is unacceptable and we all have a responsibility to fix this issue.

We are at a crisis point.

I cannot understand why we lose them when we get home.

The Trump administration's budget requests for the past 3 years have been woefully inadequate in supporting the TSA workforce.

I want to thank them very much for working under some of the trying conditions, like not getting paid.

We appreciate the continued advocacy of Chairman Thompson and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey in support of title 5 rights for the TSO workforce.

Many TSOs live paycheck to paycheck.

I just still struggling with coming up with dual personnel systems for one agency.