Tom McClintock: “The lands that you are responsible for--are densely overgrown, stressed, and dying, and you lose money doing that.”

If a little waif showed up on your doorstep the first thing you are going to do is get that little child back to its family and its home.

When the history of this administration is written, I would not want to be you looking back on what historians say about your tenure.

When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?

You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You shall now give way to better men.