Norma Torres

Putting more firearms in the wrong hands would make the world a more dangerous place.

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 144 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 144 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

On Monday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 144, providing for consideration of H.J. Res. 46, relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019. The rule provides for consideration…

How is the information and the images of toddlers behind jail cells and having nothing but a sheet of aluminum to cover themselves, pooping themselves, nobody feeding them, how are those images being portrayed to the world about America?

I want to bring the conversation back to our hemisphere and Latin America.

Political theater, political posturing for 2020, that is what we are hearing. This is the law. This is the Rules Committee moving forward a piece of legislation that will prevent the President from calling a bogus national emergency, from…

To this day, I don't know what happened to that child, but I will live with that forever.

I prefer incentive-based, but I would also like to see what do those minimum standards look like.

Do you think that it is appropriate for OMB to ask agencies to make 9 percent cuts, on average, without being willing to do the same?

Again, if you want to deal with the issues that we have at our southern border, you know, we cannot be negligent and not pay attention to the very corrupt governments in the Northern Triangle.

So you propose what is essentially flat funding in the budget request. Does that really demonstrate a commitment to fiscal discipline within the agency?

Unfortunately, we have received very little support from this Administration at ensuring that we support CICIG for example in Guatemala, MACCIH in Honduras, and because of that, the rule of law continues to be ignored.

Any time we lose a life because we deny them medical health care is criminal.

I want to talk about the Northern Triangle countries, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Obviously, you know, we have a humanitarian crisis at the border with hundreds of people coming north, a very difficult situation there not only…

Someone who negotiates with someone who is trying to kill themselves, someone who negotiates with somebody who is holding someone hostage, I hardly would describe them as something equal to a secretary or a taxicab dispatcher.

I hope that at some point, without disclosing specific information, that we could have a conversation around this issue, because it is an important issue not only to our Nation, but to the world.

The bigger picture for us in California is we are continuing working on addressing the issues of homelessness.

Certainly they deserve to be classified as anything other than taxi cab dispatchers. That is offensive to the nature of the work that they are doing every single day.

These programs are critical, and I hope that we can find a way to make it work so that these programs do not have to suffer a 94 percent cut.

With the President's decision to spend up to $601 million on the border wall out of TFF, can you tell me what other law enforcement activities will not be supported in fiscal year 2019?

So where are you looking at fulfilling the payouts that we may have to be responsible for?

I find these arguments unconvincing. I think there are messages that we send to our employees when we don't put forward transparent policies on how we are going to protect victims and how we are going to deal with whistleblowers and…

I agree the Federal Government has to have minimum standards.

When there is so much cash around, it creates a lot of problems, and when I look at crime around facilities that sell cannabis, it is a big issue in our committees, and I hope that you will take some time to look into that.

The reason why these people are fleeing is because there is no justice. There is no access to justice, and their governments are stealing funding that should be available to create programs for education.