Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for that gracious introduction. Mr. Speaker, this agreement is deeply, deeply flawed; and when you talk to our friends across the aisle, in moments of honesty, they will admit that it is deeply flawed. This is the…

I would really challenge you both please to come up with something, I don't know if it's a letter...

One of the great frustrations here is that people make mistakes. I get that. But this is not a simple mistake.

Somebody made a decision to say we're not doing that anymore.

We are not only the Oversight Committee, we're also the Government Reform Committee.

We want to find a way to help make these people whole.

I think that has been exemplified here over the last 2 1/2 hours through this hearing.

It's amazing that you get down there and see that there's no plan and no--other than, 'Hey, we're going to continue to look at it.'

Because the Government through the Department of Justice knowingly and willingly gave the drug cartels nearly 2,000 weapons.

I cannot thank the men and women of the--particularly the Border Patrol for all they do.

The consulate general and his facilities and his ability or her ability to conduct work on behalf of the United States is pivotal.

every time we spend dollars here we're pulling money out of American people's pockets to give it to somebody else.

Did the administration work with us in an open and candid way? No.

You've got a lot of people on this panel that don't understand, given the massive amount of violence.

The United States is Mexico's largest trading partner and largest foreign investor.

Gun battles between rival criminal organizations or with Mexican authorities have occurred in broad daylight on streets.

There is no police force in Nuevo Laredo. There is none.

For fiscal year 2013 and 2014, the Obama administration released roughly 66,000 criminal aliens.