Juan Vargas

this was a real failure of intelligence.

We rise today--my colleague, Congressman Peters, and myself--in honor of Father Joe Carroll, our San Diego's Mother Teresa. Father Joe was born in the Bronx, New York, on April 12, 1941, and had seven brothers and sisters. He moved to…

Well, of course, they don't trust us when you can't hear us speak with one voice that we should be vaccinated.

I'd like to see the dictatorship gone, the authoritarian rule and, obviously, have democracy and have people have the opportunity to vote and to choose whomever they want.

If you do the same thing over and over again and you expect a different result, that's insanity.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairwoman. First, I would like to say thank you for your compassion that you have toward the homeless and trying to find a solution.

I think the next big one is not Dodd-Frank; I think it is going to be climate change.

I think it is good for democracy. I think it is good for the people there to understand we are doing this because this is what free countries do, this is what democracy does, as opposed to the Chinese who do it for self-interest.

We need urgent, immediate fixes, anything to slow the flows.

Will you please join Representative Juan Vargas, who represents the border area with me, and me in San Diego soon to see this tragedy for yourself?

These Americans are counting on you and me to fix it.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 131. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS Allred (Wexton) Barragan (Beyer) Cardenas (Gallego) Costa (Correa) Crenshaw (Fallon) Donalds (Cammack)…

I, too, lived in El Salvador for a while. I was a Jesuit at the time studying to be a priest.

This is the community that is highly at risk, and so this is why we dedicate significant resources to attending to their humanitarian needs.

I hope I don't hear from Texas anymore telling us how great they are with everything, when they couldn't keep the electricity on.

The notion that we have open borders is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

We are investing for the future, this is a smart investment, and I really thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for bringing this forward.

We have had this in our history. I can tell you along--I have lived most of my life along the border in California and Mexico.

I certainly think that China poses the greatest threat for the United States going forward.

the Republicans seemed to forget that when they were in charge. They ran up this huge deficit, a huge debt, during the good times.

I think that Mr. Connolly was correct, the responsibility to declare war, hostility, or armed conflict, however you want to describe it, really lies at the feet of Congress.

I do think that we, as Congress, we are shirking our responsibility when it comes to the Constitution and, in particular, the issue of the Authorization for the Use of Military Force.

I think we have abandoned, or as my colleague Tom Malinowski said, we have abdicated our responsibility I think for two reasons.

I want to thank my good friend, Mr. Connolly from Virginia, for his leadership in pursuing justice for Mr. Jamal Khashoggi.

It does seem like we're in a very difficult place, and we want to continue our important relationship with Saudi Arabia.