Let us build on this success. Border security and keeping Americans safe used to be priorities for both our parties.

Now that today many of my Democrat colleagues are going to be calling for the abolition of ICE, and I don't understand that.

Fewer drugs will make it into the United States, saving lives and making our communities safer.

The more we can build up this BUILD organization to combat this scourge of Chinese enslavery, the better off we are.

Thank you especially Mr. Kohr for your testimony and for your hard work assuring that the strong and steadfast relationship between the U.S. and Israel is maintained.

We need an all-of-the-above approach to border security that includes manpower, 21st Century technology, and barriers.

I believe that with a bipartisan, bicameral process we can quickly give stakeholders the certainty they need and move a long-term reauthorization of CFATS to the President's desk.

I hope the tradition of bipartisanship on this issue can continue, despite the actions taken by the Majority today.

Before I begin, I would like to express my extreme disappointment that the Majority staff denied the Minority's request for a witness at today's hearing.

I firmly believe that strong investments in diplomatic and development programs are a central component of our national security.

This is something important, I think, for us and him--more important to him--for us to bear down and approve those nine pieces of this reorganization.

I understand the top U.S. objective there is the enduring defeat of ISIS.

Given what the world looks like right now, this approach seems detached from reality.

If we were to accept cuts of the magnitude proposed, it would make our nation less safe, and make it harder to achieve the effectiveness we all seek.

Well, it is a juggernaut. The Chinese are launching--have launched a juggernaut.

I hope the Chairman will join me in providing stability and certainty regarding chemical security--and avoid taking actions, which would undermine enactment of a bipartisan, long-term reauthorization.

Without a doubt, there is a crisis at the border. Changing demographics have created unprecedented challenges for the Border Patrol. In the early 2000s, most illegal border crossers were young Mexican men and our laws allowed us to quickly…

Foreign intelligence services, domestic partisans, and on-line vandals do not care what our laws say.

H.R. 1 attempts to address these pressing issues, but the bill's provisions are deeply naive.

It is incredible that we can't get this fixed. In the meantime, we have got young veterans die, going blind, suffering interminable illness because of bureaucratic crap.

Many of the soldiers coming back through the hospital, for example, in Germany, when they get back home as a veteran they can't get access to their medical reports from the hospital in Germany.

All Americans should have confidence that voting equipment and systems are secure and your vote counts as they intended.

The integrity of our elections is foundational to our democracy.

H.R. 1 attempts to address these pressing issues but the bill's provisions are deeply naive.

It is my hope that this bipartisan tradition on this issue will continue in this Congress.