Brian Bilbray

Is this a bureaucracy that is anti-military?

When we make mistakes, this town never can go back and try to correct it.

I think the Secretary brings a personal experience with the challenges as growing up in one of the out islands that I think all of you will appreciate if a major concern is rural services.

My amendment just simply allows the administration to do a study within the next 2 years to be able to develop the system that local governments can use to implement the BEACH bill so we don't have to wait 3 days in New Jersey or 3 days in…

A couple phone calls were made through the boss. And he was reminded that it would be very embarrassing to try to explain to people why homes burned while helicopters sat on the ground.

I think you agree, though, that when we talked about the 10-year minimum, the jury was told that they had to administer the 10-year execution based on the commission of the crime. And I think you were here when the 10-year minimum was…

The Governor of California supports this legislation. The fact is, the Fraternal Order of Police, because they say we have a standard now, it is REAL ID, but allow us to implement it. It is a time-sensitive issue. I understand Deepwater…

I appreciate your concern. But again, I come back to the fact that you do not place the same condition on the other technologies. And if you want to do this, then let's talk about it through the entire technologies, that we are not going…

I saw groups that were trying to use environmental regulations to stop the construction of the border fence in San Diego when the fence ended up being the best benefit to the protection of the environment, and the use of environmental…

I would like to close, Mr. Speaker, by announcing that the American people have really spoken this week, stopped the Senate from forcing something through the Senate. And not only that, they have sent the message to their Members of the…

I appreciate that. And actually, I guess we've got to remember that 11 months ago, I was standing exactly where you are and gave my acceptance speech for being sworn into Congress. And there were 18 candidates for the 50th District in…

I am chairman of the Immigration Caucus, and I am proud that my mother is an immigrant, a legal immigrant. She came here, played by the rules; and, as she reminds me again and again, it is an insult to her and everyone else who played by…

The more that he heard that it wasn't amnesty today, the more he believes it is amnesty.

If you think we're going to control illegal immigration by telling the world we're going to reward it, you can't build a fence tall enough to stop illegal immigration.

I just remember I was involved with running the County of San Diego in 1986, and I remember that before the bill was passed the number estimate was 300,000. It was after the bill was passed that they said, oh, it might be as high as 1…

Because before the fence, as somebody that grew up down there and watched this game being played, any criminal on either side of the border could jump across the border and avoid enforcement on the other. Even in Mexico, they had the area…

Thank you very much, Mr. Royce. Seeing that you are the chairman of the Border Security subcommittee, it is good to hear today that the administration has found the money to finally fill in the border tunnels across our border. A lot of…

Let me say, what we are fighting for here is nothing short of the middle class. The fact is there are those on the left and the right that say we desperately need more poor people. You know why? It is because the major corporates want…

Don't listen to the senate and don't listen to the White House. They mean well, but they're not listening to the people.

The president proposing amnesty was absolutely a big problem.

H.R. 999 is really a bipartisan approach to addressing an old problem. What we have done is try to raise not only our environmental strategies to a higher level of outcome-based approaches, but also the political process here in…

The general issue, Mr. Speaker, is the fact that as we have set a policy in this country nationally, that the waters of the United States are, and should, remain clean, pure, and safe. Sadly, over the last 25, 30, 40 years, we have had…

Actually I was a county supervisor which had supervision over county health; and because of all of the activities at the border, we decided when I was Chair that we needed to have it in both languages so everybody knew what was going on…

Mr. Chairman, it is essential that the Federal Government be required to achieve the same environmental standards that they and we require on everyone else.

California's children are breathing unhealthful exhaust spewed by diesel school buses that are among the oldest and highest-polluting in the nation, according to a report to be released today by a Los Angeles environmental group. The…